From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Sparse RCU checking reports two warnings in the mesh path table code. These are due to questionable uses of rcu_dereference. To fix the first one, get rid of mesh_gate_add() and just make mesh_path_add_gate() do the correct deref. To fix the second one, simply remove rcu_dereference() in mesh_gate_del() -- it already gets a proper pointer as indicated by the prototype (no __rcu annotation) and confirmed by the code. Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 26 ++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c 2011-11-18 17:04:20.000000000 +0100 +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c 2011-11-21 11:13:58.000000000 +0100 @@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ static inline struct mesh_table *resize_ lockdep_is_held(&pathtbl_resize_lock)); } -static int mesh_gate_add(struct mesh_table *tbl, struct mesh_path *mpath); - /* * CAREFUL -- "tbl" must not be an expression, * in particular not an rcu_dereference(), since @@ -420,21 +418,17 @@ static void mesh_gate_node_reclaim(struc } /** - * mesh_gate_add - mark mpath as path to a mesh gate and add to known_gates - * @mesh_tbl: table which contains known_gates list - * @mpath: mpath to known mesh gate - * - * Returns: 0 on success - * + * mesh_path_add_gate - add the given mpath to a mesh gate to our path table + * @mpath: gate path to add to table */ -static int mesh_gate_add(struct mesh_table *tbl, struct mesh_path *mpath) +static int mesh_path_add_gate(struct mesh_table *tbl, struct mesh_path *mpath) { struct mpath_node *gate, *new_gate; struct hlist_node *n; int err; rcu_read_lock(); - tbl = rcu_dereference(tbl); + tbl = rcu_dereference(mesh_paths); hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(gate, n, tbl->known_gates, list) if (gate->mpath == mpath) { @@ -478,8 +472,6 @@ static int mesh_gate_del(struct mesh_tab struct mpath_node *gate; struct hlist_node *p, *q; - tbl = rcu_dereference(tbl); - hlist_for_each_entry_safe(gate, p, q, tbl->known_gates, list) if (gate->mpath == mpath) { spin_lock_bh(&tbl->gates_lock); @@ -498,16 +490,6 @@ static int mesh_gate_del(struct mesh_tab } /** - * - * mesh_path_add_gate - add the given mpath to a mesh gate to our path table - * @mpath: gate path to add to table - */ -int mesh_path_add_gate(struct mesh_path *mpath) -{ - return mesh_gate_add(mesh_paths, mpath); -} - -/** * mesh_gate_num - number of gates known to this interface * @sdata: subif data */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html