Hi Saurabh, There are new sparse warnings show up in tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next.git for-davem head: ddbe503203855939946430e39bae58de11b70b69 commit: 1181412c1a671ed4e8fb1736f17e6ec617c68059 [87/99] net/ipv4: VTI support new module for ip_vti. All sparse warnings: + net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:193:17: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces) net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:193:17: expected struct ip_tunnel [noderef] <asn:4>**tp net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:193:17: got struct ip_tunnel ** + net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:205:49: sparse: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:205:49: expected struct ip_tunnel [noderef] <asn:4>**tp net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:205:49: got struct ip_tunnel ** net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:223:17: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces) net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:223:17: expected struct ip_tunnel [noderef] <asn:4>**tp net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:223:17: got struct ip_tunnel ** + net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:693:29: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces) vim +193 net/ipv4/ip_vti.c 190 struct ip_tunnel __rcu **tp; 191 struct ip_tunnel *iter; 192 > 193 for (tp = vti_bucket(ipn, t); 194 (iter = rtnl_dereference(*tp)) != NULL; 195 tp = &iter->next) { 196 if (t == iter) { Which can be fixed by adding some rcu_*() accessors to the RCU protected pointers. --- 0-DAY kernel build testing backend Open Source Technology Centre Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html