linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 7/9] net/mlx5e: Properly access RCU protected qdisc

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Message-ID: <20250612072218.6be4547f@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:22:18 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
 saeedm@...dia.com, gal@...dia.com, leonro@...dia.com, tariqt@...dia.com,
 Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 7/9] net/mlx5e: Properly access RCU protected
 qdisc_sleeping variable

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:31:45 +0300 Mark Bloch wrote:
> > I don't think this is a functional change? We don't treat silencing
> > compiler warnings as fixes, not for sparse or W=1 warnings.  
> 
> Well Eric's commit: d636fc5dd692c8f4e00ae6e0359c0eceeb5d9bdb
> that added this annotation was because of a syzbot report.

And your point is?