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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2022-10-13 19:41:51 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-11-16 09:58:14 +0100
commit2c6ba0a7872be3636d0623a19aba106ecb405737 (patch)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-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 f0de22a6caf7..2477d28c2dab 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -1676,7 +1676,9 @@ 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);