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Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:41:03 +0200
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     stefanha@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sparse warnings in net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 06:24:51AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> RCU trickery:
> 
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17:    struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17:    struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17:    struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13:    struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9:    struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9:    struct virtio_vsock *
>   CC [M]  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.o
> 
> can you take a look at fixing this pls?

Thanks for reporting!

We should annotate 'the_virtio_vsock' with __rcu.

I'll send a patch to fix these warnings.

Thanks,
Stefano