On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > The sparse checking for rcu_assign_pointer() was recently upgraded > to reject non-__kernel address spaces. This also rejects __rcu, > which is almost always the right thing to do. However, the use in > dn_insert_route() is legitimate: It is assigning a pointer to an element > from an RCU-protected list, and all elements of this list are already > visible to caller. > > This commit therefore silences this false positive by laundering the > pointer using rcu_access_pointer() as suggested by Josh Triplett. > > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang...@intel.com>
I did not realize that we were allowed to rename people :-) Thanks! Dhaval -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
