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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CAPI: Silence lockdep warning on
 get_capi_appl_by_nr usage
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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:18:15 +0200

> As long as we hold capi_controller_lock, we can safely access
> capi_applications without RCU protection as no one can modify the
> application list underneath us. Introduce an RCU-free
> __get_capi_appl_by_nr for this purpose. This silences lockdep warnings
> on suspicious rcu_dereference usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>

Applied.