netdev - Re: [patch] vlan: add rtnl_dereference() annotations

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Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:01:00 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] vlan: add rtnl_dereference() annotations

Le mercredi 14 décembre 2011 à 09:29 +0300, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
> The original code generates a Sparse warning:
> net/8021q/vlan_core.c:336:9:
> 	error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
> 
> It's ok to dereference __rcu pointers here because we are holding the
> RTNL lock.  I've added some calls to rtnl_dereference() to silence the
> warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> ---
> I haven't tested this, and I'm not super familiar with this code.
> Please review it carefully.
> 

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>


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