On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:40:42PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Yeah, possibly. After all, the variable isn't expected to change > under rcu_read_lock(). Actually it can and will change, that's the point. But if you use a local variable you keep a single version of it, which won't be freed until after rcu_read_unlock. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html