From: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@xxxxxxxxxxx> s/slat/splat/ Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.rst b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.rst index 2a5c79db57dc..bcbc4b3c88d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ misuses of the RCU API, most notably using one of the rcu_dereference() family to access an RCU-protected pointer without the proper protection. When such misuse is detected, an lockdep-RCU splat is emitted. -The usual cause of a lockdep-RCU slat is someone accessing an +The usual cause of a lockdep-RCU splat is someone accessing an RCU-protected data structure without either (1) being in the right kind of RCU read-side critical section or (2) holding the right update-side lock. This problem can therefore be serious: it might result in random memory -- 2.40.1
