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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-12-27 14:49:09 -0500
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-12-27 14:49:09 -0500
commite0aed7c74f0bf6c643103f3a10ff988b7ee6545a (patch)
treeb35d04595b30594bf4d9fac4759d10a2570590e1 /kernel/cgroup
parentdcfe149b9f45aaf89bb95e8b314210da626417d9 (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 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);
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index b6b9068ef468..d9d82e96d67f 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -4932,7 +4932,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_tryget_online_from_dir(struct dentry *dentry,
* have been or be removed at any point. @kn->priv is RCU
* protected for this access. See css_release_work_fn() for details.
*/
- cgrp = rcu_dereference(kn->priv);
+ cgrp = rcu_dereference(*(void __rcu __force **)&kn->priv);
if (cgrp)
css = cgroup_css(cgrp, ss);