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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2015-05-20 08:05:09 +0300
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2015-05-21 02:14:41 +0300
commit8532e3439087de69bb1b71fd6be2baa6fc196a55 (patch)
tree83a2251c16c683f096e827af104cfef1fa8ed60b /drivers/md
parenta81157768a00e8cf8a7b43b5ea5cac931262374f (diff)
downloadlinux-8532e3439087de69bb1b71fd6be2baa6fc196a55.tar.xz
md/bitmap: remove rcu annotation from pointer arithmetic.
Evaluating "&mddev->disks" is simple pointer arithmetic, so it does not need 'rcu' annotations - no dereferencing is happening. Also enhance the comment to explain that 'rdev' in that case is not actually a pointer to an rdev. Reported-by: Patrick Marlier <patrick.marlier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/bitmap.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
index 2bc56e2a3526..135a0907e9de 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -177,11 +177,16 @@ static struct md_rdev *next_active_rdev(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct mddev *mdde
* nr_pending is 0 and In_sync is clear, the entries we return will
* still be in the same position on the list when we re-enter
* list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu.
+ *
+ * Note that if entered with 'rdev == NULL' to start at the
+ * beginning, we temporarily assign 'rdev' to an address which
+ * isn't really an rdev, but which can be used by
+ * list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() to find the first entry.
*/
rcu_read_lock();
if (rdev == NULL)
/* start at the beginning */
- rdev = list_entry_rcu(&mddev->disks, struct md_rdev, same_set);
+ rdev = list_entry(&mddev->disks, struct md_rdev, same_set);
else {
/* release the previous rdev and start from there. */
rdev_dec_pending(rdev, mddev);