Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:48:23 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 18:35 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@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 uses in > cfg80211_combine_bsses() and cfg80211_bss_update() are legitimate: > They is assigning a pointer to an element from an RCU-protected list, [...]
'They is'? This error is also in the commit messsages for the bridge and mac80211 patches, and maybe others that weren't sent to netdev.
Ben.
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