netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/11] openvswitch: Allow each vport to have an array of 'port

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Message-ID: <CALnjE+pSnhG4W55j-QBhsQLdmHQ1BU-rLbjj_Nf-Ju04Y1972g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:28:23 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Alex Wang <alexw@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] openvswitch: Allow each vport to have an array of 'port_id's.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:13 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:12:54 -0700
>
>>  void ovs_vport_free(struct vport *vport)
>>  {
>> +     kfree((struct vport_portids __force *)vport->upcall_portids);
>
> This cast is ugly and never correct for this situation, you need to
> use rcu_dereference().

This function is called either from RCU callback or error path, So it is fine.
I do not use rcu_dereference() since rcu_read lock is not held. To
avoid rcu sparse checker warning the typecast is done.
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