rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:05:51 +0000 (18:05 +0200)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:41:14 +0000 (19:41 +0200)
commitb9964ce74544ea6cbc4eabd2c89a531adf7f291d
tree98f9f383bb65b166cf62c54da71080d22aee6023
parent0bc919d3e0b8149a60d2444c6a8e2b5974556522
rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer

The xchg() and cmpxchg() functions are sometimes used to carry out RCU
updates.  Unfortunately, this can result in sparse warnings for both
the old-value and new-value arguments, as well as for the return value.
The arguments can be dealt with using RCU_INITIALIZER():

        old_p = xchg(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER(new_p));

But a sparse warning still remains due to assigning the __rcu pointer
returned from xchg to the (most likely) non-__rcu pointer old_p.

This commit therefore provides an unrcu_pointer() macro that strips
the __rcu.  This macro can be used as follows:

        old_p = unrcu_pointer(xchg(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER(new_p)));

Reported-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-2-toke@redhat.com
include/linux/rcupdate.h