Re: [PATCH v4] Fixing directly deferencing a __rcu pointer warning

[Abhinav Singh]

On 11/13/23 01:28, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 01:00:55AM +0530, Abhinav Singh wrote:
> > This patch fixes the sparse warning with this message
> > "dereference of noderef expression" , in this context
> > it means about directly dereferencing a pointer tagged
> > with __rcu annotation.
>
> Please, stop this madness. Just accept that sparse is a stupid tool and
> the code is actually fine.

Thank you for your tine maintainers. Okay I understood that this extra 
patch, is not required. Just one follow up question, in some driver code 
as well I see these warning, might be possible those are real issue.
Can you suggest me like how do I know if a rcu related warning is really 
a issue or just a false positive warning.

Thanks,
Abhinav.