Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: Apply rcu_access_pointer()to avoid sparse false positive

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 18:35 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.

Ben.

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