sparse is unhappy about this code in hlist_add_tail_rcu: struct hlist_node *i, *last = NULL;
for (i = hlist_first_rcu(h); i; i = hlist_next_rcu(i)) last = i; This is because hlist_next_rcu and hlist_next_rcu return __rcu pointers. The following trivial patch disables the warning without changing the behaviour in any way. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> --- I would appreciate review to confirm the function doesn't do anything unsafe though. In particular, should this use __hlist_for_each_rcu instead? I note that __hlist_for_each_rcu does rcu_dereference internally, which is missing here. compile-tested only. diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h index 8beb98d..33574db 100644 --- a/include/linux/rculist.h +++ b/include/linux/rculist.h @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static inline void hlist_add_tail_rcu(struct hlist_node *n, { struct hlist_node *i, *last = NULL; - for (i = hlist_first_rcu(h); i; i = hlist_next_rcu(i)) + for (i = h->first; i; i = i->next) last = i; if (last) {