netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/8] rhashtable: silence RCU warning in rhashtable

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Date:   Sat, 5 May 2018 17:10:46 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] rhashtable: silence RCU warning in rhashtable_test.

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 01:54:14PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> print_ht in rhashtable_test calls rht_dereference() with neither
> RCU protection or the mutex.  This triggers an RCU warning.
> So take the mutex to silence the warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>

I don't think the mutex is actually needed but since we don't
have rht_dereference_raw and this is just test code:

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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