From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
tglx@linutronix.de, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, edumazet@google.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
sbw@mit.edu, niv@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
darren@dvhart.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:26:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130925182608.GY9093@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380131303.2222.9.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:48:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 18:35 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > The sparse checking for rcu_assign_pointer() was recently upgraded
> > to reject non-__kernel address spaces. This also rejects __rcu,
> > which is almost always the right thing to do. However, the uses in
> > cfg80211_combine_bsses() and cfg80211_bss_update() are legitimate:
> > They is assigning a pointer to an element from an RCU-protected list,
> [...]
>
> 'They is'? This error is also in the commit messsages for the bridge
> and mac80211 patches, and maybe others that weren't sent to netdev.
Good catch, fixed in four patches. Yeah, English can be a bit
unfriendly at times to text reuse. The s/It/They/ should have been
s/It is/They are/. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-25 18:26 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <1380072916-31557-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/13] bridge: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 17:48 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-09-25 18:26 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/13] decnet: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/13] ipv4/ip_socketglue: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/13] ipv6/ip6_tunnel: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/13] ipv6/ip6_gre: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/13] ipv6/sit: " Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <1380072916-31557-1-git-send-email-paulmck-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/13] mac80211: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/13] bridge/br_mdb: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/13] bonding/bond_main: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 1:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/13] bonding/bond_alb.c: " Paul E. McKenney
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