linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/rhashtable: Fix work initialization in rhashtable

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Message-Id: <20181218.213257.1251094090416839024.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:32:57 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bvanassche@....org
Cc:     tgraf@...g.ch, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/rhashtable: Fix work initialization in
 rhashtable_init()

From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:40:58 -0800

> The test_insert_dup() function from lib/test_rhashtable.c passes a
> pointer to a stack object to rhltable_init(). Avoid that the following
> is reported with object debugging enabled while running the selftest
> from lib/test_rhashtable.c:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>

Please just fix the test to use the global object created for this purpose
instead of an unnecessary on-stack instance.

Thanks.