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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] vlan: add rtnl_dereference() annotations
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:47:19 -0500 (EST)
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:29:43 +0300

> The original code generates a Sparse warning:
> net/8021q/vlan_core.c:336:9:
> 	error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
> 
> It's ok to dereference __rcu pointers here because we are holding the
> RTNL lock.  I've added some calls to rtnl_dereference() to silence the
> warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Applied.