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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2022-10-13 20:41:51 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-11-16 11:57:08 +0300
commit914cb94e738ba6ebb482d61567fb50bf700e4f19 (patch)
tree13dd1a4d0804a362e400ee641abe99b214952a08
parent72ea2fc29962f3bb16eba80a2f0c88ffa6bb9e08 (diff)
downloadlinux-914cb94e738ba6ebb482d61567fb50bf700e4f19.tar.xz
wifi: cfg80211: silence a sparse RCU warning
[ Upstream commit 03c0ad4b06c3566de624b4f4b78ac1a5d1e4c8e7 ] All we're going to do with this pointer is assign it to another __rcu pointer, but sparse can't see that, so use rcu_access_pointer() to silence the warning here. Fixes: c90b93b5b782 ("wifi: cfg80211: update hidden BSSes to avoid WARN_ON") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/scan.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 22d169923261..15119c49c093 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -1669,7 +1669,9 @@ cfg80211_update_known_bss(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
if (old == rcu_access_pointer(known->pub.ies))
rcu_assign_pointer(known->pub.ies, new->pub.beacon_ies);
- cfg80211_update_hidden_bsses(known, new->pub.beacon_ies, old);
+ cfg80211_update_hidden_bsses(known,
+ rcu_access_pointer(new->pub.beacon_ies),
+ old);
if (old)
kfree_rcu((struct cfg80211_bss_ies *)old, rcu_head);