On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 06:31:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > If you are just looking at the value of an RCU-protected pointer, then > using rcu_access_pointer() will cause RCU to just read out the value > and otherwise keeps its mouth shut. > > If you use rcu_access_pointer() and later dereference the value without > protection, you will of course get what you deserve, good and hard. ;-)
Thanks Paul. Christoph, I'll be sending the v2 probably tomorrow as I have more lockdep fixes for nvme in the pipe and I'll send them out as a complete series. -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage [email protected] +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850
