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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-12-27 20:49:09 +0100
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-12-27 20:49:09 +0100
commite0aed7c74f0bf6c643103f3a10ff988b7ee6545a (patch)
treeb35d04595b30594bf4d9fac4759d10a2570590e1 /kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
parentcgroup: move namespace code to kernel/cgroup/namespace.c (diff)
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cgroup: fix RCU related sparse warnings
kn->priv which is a void * is used as a RCU pointer by cgroup. When dereferencing it, it was passing kn->priv to rcu_derefreence() without casting it into a RCU pointer triggering address space mismatch warning from sparse. Fix them. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
index 37be09e09740..465b10111eaf 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ int cgroupstats_build(struct cgroupstats *stats, struct dentry *dentry)
* @kn->priv is RCU safe. Let's do the RCU dancing.
*/
rcu_read_lock();
- cgrp = rcu_dereference(kn->priv);
+ cgrp = rcu_dereference(*(void __rcu __force **)&kn->priv);
if (!cgrp || cgroup_is_dead(cgrp)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);