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Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hkchu@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove invalid __rcu annotation

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:21:06 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> struct tcp_fastopen_context has a field named tfm, which is a pointer
> to a crypto_cipher structure.
> 
> It currently has a __rcu annotation, which is not needed at all.
> 
> tcp_fastopen_ctx is the pointer fetched by rcu_dereference(), but once
> we have a pointer to current tcp_fastopen_context, we do not use/need
> rcu_dereference() to access tfm.
> 
> This fixes a lot of sparse errors like the following :
> 
> net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c:21:31: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c:21:31:    expected struct crypto_cipher *tfm
> net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c:21:31:    got struct crypto_cipher [noderef] <asn:4>*tfm
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.
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