This fixes the following sparse error when using CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y and "make C=2 fs/eventpoll.o" fs/eventpoll.c:514:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces) Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> --- Oleg: I found this error since I was working on an unrelated patch to convert wakeup_source users to RCU in epoll. This was introduced in: commit 971316f0503a5c50633d07b83b6db2f15a3a5b00 (epoll: ep_unregister_pollwait() can use the freed pwq->whead) fs/eventpoll.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index 9fec183..1326409 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ struct eppoll_entry { wait_queue_t wait; /* The wait queue head that linked the "wait" wait queue item */ - wait_queue_head_t *whead; + wait_queue_head_t __rcu *whead; }; /* Wrapper struct used by poll queueing */ @@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *k struct eventpoll *ep = epi->ep; if ((unsigned long)key & POLLFREE) { - ep_pwq_from_wait(wait)->whead = NULL; + RCU_INIT_POINTER(ep_pwq_from_wait(wait)->whead, NULL); /* * whead = NULL above can race with ep_remove_wait_queue() * which can do another remove_wait_queue() after us, so we @@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@ static void ep_ptable_queue_proc(struct file *file, wait_queue_head_t *whead, if (epi->nwait >= 0 && (pwq = kmem_cache_alloc(pwq_cache, GFP_KERNEL))) { init_waitqueue_func_entry(&pwq->wait, ep_poll_callback); - pwq->whead = whead; + RCU_INIT_POINTER(pwq->whead, whead); pwq->base = epi; add_wait_queue(whead, &pwq->wait); list_add_tail(&pwq->llink, &epi->pwqlist); -- Eric Wong -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html