From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] genhd: Annotate all part and part_tbl pointer dereferences
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:39:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <efffa7df-7610-fd04-7dae-5ef426f9c2f7@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170817232311.25948-8-bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
On 08/18/2017 01:23 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Annotate gendisk.part_tbl and disk_part_tbl.part dereferences with
> rcu_dereference_protected(). This patch does not change the behavior
> of the modified code but ensures that sparse does not complain about
> disk->part_tbl manipulations nor about part_tbl->part accesses.
> Additionally, improve documentation of the locking requirements of
> the modified functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> block/genhd.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> block/partition-generic.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-18 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-17 23:22 [PATCH 00/12] Twelve small block layer patches Bart Van Assche
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 01/12] block: Fix two comments that refer to .queue_rq() return values Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:31 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 02/12] block: Unexport blk_queue_end_tag() Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:31 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 03/12] blk-mq: Explain when 'active_queues' is decremented Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:32 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-18 14:34 ` Jens Axboe
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 04/12] blk-mq: Make blk_mq_reinit_tagset() calls easier to read Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:32 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-20 6:15 ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 05/12] blk-mq-debugfs: Declare a local symbol static Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 6:52 ` Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18 7:33 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 06/12] blk-mq-debugfs: Generate name-to-text translation tables Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:38 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-18 14:35 ` Jens Axboe
2017-08-18 15:11 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 15:36 ` Jens Axboe
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 07/12] genhd: Annotate all part and part_tbl pointer dereferences Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:39 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 08/12] ide-floppy: Use blk_rq_is_scsi() Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 5:00 ` David Miller
2017-08-18 7:39 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 09/12] virtio_blk: " Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:39 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 10/12] xen-blkback: Fix indentation Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:40 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 11/12] xen-blkback: Avoid that gcc 7 warns about fall-through when building with W=1 Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 7:40 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-17 23:23 ` [PATCH 12/12] xen-blkfront: " Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 8:54 ` Roger Pau Monn303251
2017-08-18 11:46 ` [Xen-devel] " Anthony PERARD
2017-08-18 11:57 ` Roger Pau Monn303251
2017-08-18 14:37 ` [PATCH 00/12] Twelve small block layer patches Jens Axboe
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