netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: add annotation for sock_{lock,unlock}

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Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:43:45 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: add annotation for
 sock_{lock,unlock}_fast

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:43:49 +0100 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> The static checker is fooled by the non-static locking scheme
> implemented by the mentioned helpers.
> Let's make its life easier adding some unconditional annotation
> so that the helpers are now interpreted as a plain spinlock from
> sparse.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>  - add __releases() annotation to unlock_sock_fast()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Applied, thank you!