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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:10:23 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jiri@...nulli.us, vyasevic@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v2] netpoll: add some missing __rcu marks in
 several places

On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 11:16 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:

> The reason is we don't dereference ->npinfo pointer, we just check if it
> is NULL, so doesn't need to call rcu_dereference(). Or am I missing
> anything?

Yes you are missing that the right thing to do is to use
rcu_access_pointer()

Sparse errors should not be fixed using random RCU verbs,
please be more careful.


diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team.c b/drivers/net/team/team.c
index 05c5efe..03e5949 100644
--- a/drivers/net/team/team.c
+++ b/drivers/net/team/team.c
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static void team_port_disable_netpoll(struct team_port *port)
 
 static struct netpoll_info *team_netpoll_info(struct team *team)
 {
-	return team->dev->npinfo;
+	return rcu_access_pointer(team->dev->npinfo);
 }
 
 #else


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