netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipvlan: properly annotate rx

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Date:   Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:12:56 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, maheshb@...gle.com, jbenc@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipvlan: properly annotate rx_handler access

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Mar 2018 10:29:30 +0100

> The rx_handler field is rcu-protected, but I forgot to use the
> proper accessor while refactoring netif_is_ipvlan_port(). Such
> function only check the rx_handler value, so it is safe, but we need
> to properly read rx_handler via rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse
> warnings.
> 
> Fixes: 1ec54cb44e67 ("net: unpollute priv_flags space")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Applied.