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From: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: steffen.klassert@secunet.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Kernel-Maillist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] net: xfrm: use __this_cpu_read per-cpu helper
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:45:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A054D4.2070404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000013ae6ccff86-695eb9f4-23b6-4196-a575-e12d05e1a659-000000@email.amazonses.com>

Christoph Lameter said, at 2012/11/10 4:12:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Shan Wei wrote:
> 
>> v3 fix compile warning:
>> net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c: In function 'ipcomp_alloc_tfms':
>> net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c:285: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> 
> Why exactly is the pointer type not compatible? Looks like we have a
> problem here.
> 

pos->tfms(struct crypto_comp **tfms) is a double pointer that point to struct crypto_comp.
returned value is a pointer that point to struct crypto_comp;
So, we need to dereference and then read.

+ tfm = __this_cpu_read(*pos->tfms);

I will update this patch in v4 to fix it.

Thanks~

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-12  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-09  2:20 [PATCH v3 3/9] net: xfrm: use __this_cpu_read per-cpu helper Shan Wei
2012-11-09 20:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-11-12  1:45   ` Shan Wei [this message]

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