Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 05/13] decnet: Apply rcu_access_pointer()to avoid sparse false positive

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Oct 09 2013 - 19:57:25 EST


On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:57:16PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:46:04PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:29:38PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Nit: "uses ... are", not "use ... is". :)
> >
> > Don't I already have "use ... is"?
>
> I was suggesting that it needed to change from "use ... is" to "uses ...
> are", not the other way around.

I guess there really are two uses rather than just one. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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