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Message-ID: <20231112195839.GA9987@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:58:39 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Abhinav Singh <singhabhinav9051571833@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, brauner@...nel.org, surenb@...gle.com,
        mst@...hat.com, michael.christie@...cle.com, mjguzik@...il.com,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, npiggin@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Fixing directly deferencing a __rcu pointer warning

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 01:00:55AM +0530, Abhinav Singh wrote:
> This patch fixes the sparse warning with this message 
> "dereference of noderef expression" , in this context 
> it means about directly dereferencing a pointer tagged 
> with __rcu annotation.

Please, stop this madness. Just accept that sparse is a stupid tool and
the code is actually fine.