locking/barriers: Don't use sizeof(void) in lockless_dereference()
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:16:00 +0000 (08:16 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:50:42 +0000 (11:50 +0200)
commitd7127b5e5fa0551be21b86640f1648b224e36d43
treedd35da3a05da721d36c353ddea11555d4eb14362
parentc6935931c1894ff857616ff8549b61236a19148f
locking/barriers: Don't use sizeof(void) in lockless_dereference()

My previous commit:

  112dc0c8069e ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()")

caused sparse to complain that (in radix-tree.h) we use sizeof(void)
since that rcu_dereference()s a void *.

Really, all we need is to have the expression *p in here somewhere
to make sure p is a pointer type, and sizeof(*p) was the thing that
came to my mind first to make sure that's done without really doing
anything at runtime.

Another thing I had considered was using typeof(*p), but obviously
we can't just declare a typeof(*p) variable either, since that may
end up being void. Declaring a variable as typeof(*p)* gets around
that, and still checks that typeof(*p) is valid, so do that. This
type construction can't be done for _________p1 because that will
actually be used and causes sparse address space warnings, so keep
a separate unused variable for it.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kbuild-all@01.org
Fixes: 112dc0c8069e ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472192160-4049-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/compiler.h