Re: [PATCH] rxrpc: struct mutex cannot be used for rxrpc_call::user_mutex

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Dec 20 2019 - 15:13:24 EST


On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 09:44:17AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Automate what exactly?
>
> What I meant was automating finding cases that are 'false positives' such
> as rxrpc and kexec _before_ re-adding the warn.

I suppose we can keep the WARN patch in a -next enabled branch for a
while, without it nessecarily going into linus' tree on the next
release.

That does require people actually testing -next, which seems somewhat
optimistic.

Alternatively, you can try your hand at smatch ...