From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In order to silent sparse in dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(), we need to mark the incoming fence object as being RCU protected and not the pointer to the object. Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linaro-mm-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/dma-fence.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/dma-fence.h b/include/linux/dma-fence.h index efdabbb64e3c..4c008170fe65 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-fence.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-fence.h @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ static inline struct dma_fence *dma_fence_get_rcu(struct dma_fence *fence) * The caller is required to hold the RCU read lock. */ static inline struct dma_fence * -dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(struct dma_fence * __rcu *fencep) +dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(struct dma_fence __rcu **fencep) { do { struct dma_fence *fence; -- 2.13.6