linux-kernel - [PATCH] hlist_add_tail_rcu disable sparse warning

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:39:49 +0200
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH] hlist_add_tail_rcu disable sparse warning

sparse is unhappy about this code in hlist_add_tail_rcu:

        struct hlist_node *i, *last = NULL;

        for (i = hlist_first_rcu(h); i; i = hlist_next_rcu(i))
                last = i;

This is because hlist_next_rcu and hlist_next_rcu return
__rcu pointers.

It's a false positive - it's a write side primitive and so
does not need to be called in a read side critical section.

The following trivial patch disables the warning
without changing the behaviour in any way.

Note: __hlist_for_each_rcu would also remove the warning but it would be
confusing since it calls rcu_derefence and is designed to run in the rcu
read side critical section.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---

changes since RFC
	added commit log text to explain why don't we use __hlist_for_each_rcu

 include/linux/rculist.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
index 4f7a956..bf578e8 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ static inline void hlist_add_tail_rcu(struct hlist_node *n,
 {
 	struct hlist_node *i, *last = NULL;
 
-	for (i = hlist_first_rcu(h); i; i = hlist_next_rcu(i))
+	for (i = h->first; i; i = i->next)
 		last = i;
 
 	if (last) {
-- 
MST