From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 05/13] decnet: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:57:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131009235708.GI5790@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131009225716.GI11709@jtriplet-mobl1>
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:57:16PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:46:04PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:29:38PM -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 use in
> > > > dn_insert_route() is legitimate: It is assigning a pointer to an element
> > >
> > > Nit: "uses ... are", not "use ... is". :)
> >
> > Don't I already have "use ... is"?
>
> I was suggesting that it needed to change from "use ... is" to "uses ...
> are", not the other way around.
I guess there really are two uses rather than just one. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 21:29 [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Sparse-related updates for 3.13 Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <1381354186-16285-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 03/13] bridge: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 05/13] decnet: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:28 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 22:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:57 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-10-09 22:58 ` Dhaval Giani
2013-10-09 23:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 06/13] ipv4/ip_socketglue: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 07/13] ipv6/ip6_tunnel: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 21:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 22:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 22:56 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 23:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 23:40 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-10 0:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-10 0:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-10 2:04 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-10 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-12 2:25 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-12 7:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-12 16:43 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-12 17:37 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-12 19:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-10-13 11:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-13 20:11 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-11 0:20 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-11 13:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 08/13] ipv6/ip6_gre: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 09/13] ipv6/sit: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 10/13] mac80211: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 11/13] bridge/br_mdb: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 12/13] bonding/bond_main: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 13/13] bonding/bond_alb.c: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:18 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Sparse-related updates for 3.13 Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 22:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:23 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 22:30 ` Josh Triplett
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