Re: [PATCH v2] driver: gpu: Fixing warning directly dereferencing a rcu pointer

On 11/13/23 19:55, Abhinav Singh wrote: On 11/14/23 00:19, Danilo Krummrich wrote: Hi, thanks for sending a v2. On 11/13/23 19:42, Abhinav Singh wrote: This patch fixes a sparse warning with this message "warning:dereference of noderef expression". In this context it means we are dereferencin

Re: [PATCH v2] driver: gpu: Fixing warning directly dereferencing a rcu pointer

On 11/14/23 00:19, Danilo Krummrich wrote: Hi, thanks for sending a v2. On 11/13/23 19:42, Abhinav Singh wrote: This patch fixes a sparse warning with this message "warning:dereference of noderef expression". In this context it means we are dereferencing a __rcu tagged pointer directly. Bett

Re: [PATCH v2] driver: gpu: Fixing warning directly dereferencing a rcu pointer

Hi, thanks for sending a v2. On 11/13/23 19:42, Abhinav Singh wrote: This patch fixes a sparse warning with this message "warning:dereference of noderef expression". In this context it means we are dereferencing a __rcu tagged pointer directly. Better use imperative here, e.g. "Fix a sparse w

[PATCH v2] driver: gpu: Fixing warning directly dereferencing a rcu pointer

This patch fixes a sparse warning with this message "warning:dereference of noderef expression". In this context it means we are dereferencing a __rcu tagged pointer directly. We should not be directly dereferencing a rcu pointer, rather we should be using rcu helper function rcu_dereferece() ins