[ovs-dev] [PATCH 01/10] datapath: Add missing rtnl_dereference() calls.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Wed Dec 29 17:49:31 UTC 2010
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 08:50:39PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> There are a few additional places where RCU protected pointers
> are directly dereferenced because they assume RTNL lock. These
> were previously not reported due to some other sparse errors in
> the Linux headers files. This adds the necessary rtnl_dereference()
> calls to make sparse happy and allow lockdep to validate.
>
> Found with sparse.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
I verified that this added rtnl_dereference() annotations and didn't
change anything else. I didn't verify that they were correct, since
presumably sparse and lockdep will tell us if they aren't.
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
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