netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: Kill ipv6 dependency of icmpv6

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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:13:54 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: Kill ipv6 dependency of icmpv6_send().

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 11:37 -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>
>> +int inet6_register_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn)
>> +{
>> +     return (cmpxchg(&ip6_icmp_send, NULL, fn) == NULL) ? 0 : -EBUSY;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6_register_icmp_sender);
>> +
>> +int inet6_unregister_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn)
>> +{
>> +     int ret;
>> +
>> +     ret = (cmpxchg(&ip6_icmp_send, fn, NULL) == fn) ? 0 : -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +     synchronize_net();
>> +
>> +     return ret;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6_unregister_icmp_sender);
>
> Good idea, but I bet you didn't run sparse on this code...
>
> CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y
>
> make C=2 net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.o
>
> you probably need to cast to (ip6_icmp_send_t *)
>
right, Let me send fix for it.
>
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