netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nfnetlink: silence warning if CONFIG_PROVE

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Message-ID: <20130304155946.GA25980@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2013 16:59:46 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nfnetlink: silence warning if
 CONFIG_PROVE_RCU isn't set

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 01:45:41PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Since commit c14b78e7decd0d1d5add6a4604feb8609fe920a9 ("netfilter:
> nfnetlink: add mutex per subsystem") building nefnetlink.o without
> CONFIG_PROVE_RCU set, triggers this GCC warning:
>     net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:65:22: warning: ‘nfnl_get_lock’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
> 
> The cause of that warning is, in short, that rcu_lockdep_assert()
> compiles away if CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is not set. Silence this warning by
> open coding nfnl_get_lock() in the sole place it was called, which
> allows to remove that function.

Applied, thanks Paul.
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