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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC] hlist_add_tail_rcu disable sparse warning
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:48:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123223457-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)

sparse is unhappy about this code in hlist_add_tail_rcu:

        struct hlist_node *i, *last = NULL;

        for (i = hlist_first_rcu(h); i; i = hlist_next_rcu(i))
                last = i;

This is because hlist_next_rcu and hlist_next_rcu return
__rcu pointers.

The following trivial patch disables the warning
without changing the behaviour in any way.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

---

I would appreciate review to confirm the function doesn't
do anything unsafe though.

In particular, should this use __hlist_for_each_rcu instead?
I note that __hlist_for_each_rcu does rcu_dereference
internally, which is missing here.

compile-tested only.

diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
index 8beb98d..33574db 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static inline void hlist_add_tail_rcu(struct hlist_node *n,
 {
 	struct hlist_node *i, *last = NULL;
 
-	for (i = hlist_first_rcu(h); i; i = hlist_next_rcu(i))
+	for (i = h->first; i; i = i->next)
 		last = i;
 
 	if (last) {

             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-23 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23 20:48 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2016-11-26  0:52 ` [PATCH RFC] hlist_add_tail_rcu disable sparse warning David Miller
2016-11-28 14:39   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-28 15:30     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-05  3:47     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-05  3:29   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-05 19:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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