From 112dc0c8069e5554e0ad29c58228f1e6ca49e13d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:50:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference() After Peter's commit: 331b6d8c7afc ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type") ... we get a lot of sparse warnings (one for every rcu_dereference, and more) since the expression here is assigning to the wrong address space. Instead of validating that 'p' is a pointer this way, instead make it fail compilation when it's not by using sizeof(*(p)). This will not cause any sparse warnings (tested, likely since the address space is irrelevant for sizeof), and will fail compilation when 'p' isn't a pointer type. Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: 331b6d8c7afc ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470909022-687-2-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/compiler.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 1bb954842725..436aa4e42221 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -527,13 +527,13 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s * object's lifetime is managed by something other than RCU. That * "something other" might be reference counting or simple immortality. * - * The seemingly unused void * variable is to validate @p is indeed a pointer - * type. All pointer types silently cast to void *. + * The seemingly unused size_t variable is to validate @p is indeed a pointer + * type by making sure it can be dereferenced. */ #define lockless_dereference(p) \ ({ \ typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \ - __maybe_unused const void * const _________p2 = _________p1; \ + size_t __maybe_unused __size_of_ptr = sizeof(*(p)); \ smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \ (_________p1); \ }) -- 2.20.1