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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: [PATCH] epoll: fix sparse error on RCU assignment
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:35:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130310113559.GA16551@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)

This fixes the following sparse error when using
CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y and "make C=2 fs/eventpoll.o"

  fs/eventpoll.c:514:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
---
 Oleg: I found this error since I was working on an unrelated patch
 to convert wakeup_source users to RCU in epoll.  This was introduced
 in:

  commit 971316f0503a5c50633d07b83b6db2f15a3a5b00
  (epoll: ep_unregister_pollwait() can use the freed pwq->whead)

 fs/eventpoll.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 9fec183..1326409 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ struct eppoll_entry {
 	wait_queue_t wait;
 
 	/* The wait queue head that linked the "wait" wait queue item */
-	wait_queue_head_t *whead;
+	wait_queue_head_t __rcu *whead;
 };
 
 /* Wrapper struct used by poll queueing */
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *k
 	struct eventpoll *ep = epi->ep;
 
 	if ((unsigned long)key & POLLFREE) {
-		ep_pwq_from_wait(wait)->whead = NULL;
+		RCU_INIT_POINTER(ep_pwq_from_wait(wait)->whead, NULL);
 		/*
 		 * whead = NULL above can race with ep_remove_wait_queue()
 		 * which can do another remove_wait_queue() after us, so we
@@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@ static void ep_ptable_queue_proc(struct file *file, wait_queue_head_t *whead,
 
 	if (epi->nwait >= 0 && (pwq = kmem_cache_alloc(pwq_cache, GFP_KERNEL))) {
 		init_waitqueue_func_entry(&pwq->wait, ep_poll_callback);
-		pwq->whead = whead;
+		RCU_INIT_POINTER(pwq->whead, whead);
 		pwq->base = epi;
 		add_wait_queue(whead, &pwq->wait);
 		list_add_tail(&pwq->llink, &epi->pwqlist);
-- 
Eric Wong

             reply	other threads:[~2013-03-10 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-10 11:35 Eric Wong [this message]
2013-03-10 18:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-14  2:45   ` Eric Wong
2013-03-15 17:42     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-28 19:34       ` Eric Wong

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