linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] netpoll: Use RCU primitives for npinfo pointer access

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Message-ID: <20241119063450.45a3c7c1@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 06:34:50 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org, Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
 davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
 horms@...nel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...nel.org, Linus Torvalds
 <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] netpoll: Use RCU primitives for npinfo pointer
 access

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:53:49 +0800 Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Here is the summary with links:
> >   - [net,1/2] netpoll: Use rcu_access_pointer() in __netpoll_setup
> >     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c69c5e10adb9
> >   - [net,2/2] netpoll: Use rcu_access_pointer() in netpoll_poll_lock
> >     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/a57d5a72f8de  
> 
> These are not bug fixes.  They should not be going through during
> a merge window, especially with such a short period of review.

Sorry, I do agree with your assessment, especially on patch 1.
But it's good to silence the false positive, so I applied and
stripped the Fixes tag.