Re: [PATCH RFC] hlist_add_tail_rcu disable sparse warning

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Nov 25 2016 - 19:52:53 EST


From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:48:19 +0200

> I would appreciate review to confirm the function doesn't
> do anything unsafe though.
>
> In particular, should this use __hlist_for_each_rcu instead?
> I note that __hlist_for_each_rcu does rcu_dereference
> internally, which is missing here.

I personally think it should use __hlist_for_each_rcu, otherwise
nothing expresses the rcu-ness of the operation.