linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:56:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sunilmut@...rosoft.com
Cc:     decui@...rosoft.com, kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
        sthemmin@...rosoft.com, sashal@...nel.org, mikelley@...rosoft.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition

From: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@...rosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:47:08 +0000

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-hyperv-owner@...r.kernel.org <linux-hyperv-owner@...r.kernel.org> On Behalf Of David Miller
>> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 1:55 PM
>> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
>> Cc: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@...rosoft.com>; KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>;
>> Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>; sashal@...nel.org; Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>;
>> netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition
>> 
>> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:22:32 +0000
>> 
>> > These warnings are not introduced by this patch from Sunil.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure why I didn't notice these warnings before.
>> > Probably my gcc version is not new eought?
>> >
>> > Actually these warnings are bogus, as I checked the related functions,
>> > which may confuse the compiler's static analysis.
>> >
>> > I'm going to make a patch to initialize the pointers to NULL to suppress
>> > the warnings. My patch will be based on the latest's net.git + this patch
>> > from Sunil.
>> 
>> Sunil should then resubmit his patch against something that has the
>> warning suppression patch applied.
> 
> David, Dexuan's patch to suppress the warnings seems to be applied now
> to the 'net' branch. Can we please get this patch applied as well?

I don't know how else to say "Suni should then resubmit his patch"

Please just resubmit it!