Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition

[David Miller]

From: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:47:08 +0000

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-hyperv-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-hyperv-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of David Miller
>> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 1:55 PM
>> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; sashal@xxxxxxxxxx; Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition
>> 
>> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:22:32 +0000
>> 
>> > These warnings are not introduced by this patch from Sunil.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure why I didn't notice these warnings before.
>> > Probably my gcc version is not new eought?
>> >
>> > Actually these warnings are bogus, as I checked the related functions,
>> > which may confuse the compiler's static analysis.
>> >
>> > I'm going to make a patch to initialize the pointers to NULL to suppress
>> > the warnings. My patch will be based on the latest's net.git + this patch
>> > from Sunil.
>> 
>> Sunil should then resubmit his patch against something that has the
>> warning suppression patch applied.
> 
> David, Dexuan's patch to suppress the warnings seems to be applied now
> to the 'net' branch. Can we please get this patch applied as well?

I don't know how else to say "Suni should then resubmit his patch"

Please just resubmit it!