Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] Harden list_for_each_entry_rcu() and family

2019-07-11 Thread Joel Fernandes
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 07:43:55PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > Hi, > This series aims to provide lockdep checking to RCU list macros. > > RCU has a number of primitives for "consumption" of an RCU protected pointer. > Most of the time, these consumers make sure that such accesses are

[PATCH v1 0/6] Harden list_for_each_entry_rcu() and family

2019-07-11 Thread Joel Fernandes (Google)
Hi, This series aims to provide lockdep checking to RCU list macros. RCU has a number of primitives for "consumption" of an RCU protected pointer. Most of the time, these consumers make sure that such accesses are under a RCU reader-section (such as rcu_dereference{,sched,bh} or under a lock,