From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com
[ 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 --- net/wireless/scan.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c index 39fb9cc25cdc..9067e4b70855 100644 --- a/net/wireless/scan.c +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c @@ -1674,7 +1674,9 @@ 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);