mac80211: Fixing sparse warning at sta_info.c
authorYogesh Ashok Powar <yogesh.powar@gmail.com>
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:17:15 +0000 (11:47 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:06:09 +0000 (15:06 -0500)
commit27bf88829f50cf1af2b052ecee2f6f0dbe4a5141
treeac9cdf412a7192fb5eb0cdc2e4cb6ce3c74cbfaf
parent23de5dc9be28b59a8474bcbba278230c66f0759d
mac80211: Fixing sparse warning at sta_info.c

The commit 42624d4913a00219a8fdbb4bafd634d1d843be85
created following sparse warning
>net/mac80211/sta_info.c:965:24: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
>net/mac80211/sta_info.c:965:24:    expected struct tid_ampdu_tx *tid_tx
>net/mac80211/sta_info.c:965:24:    got struct tid_ampdu_tx [noderef] <asn:4>*<noident>

Making use of rcu_dereference_protected to fix the problem.

V2:
 - Replacing rcu_dereference with rcu_dereference_protected
   as suggested by Johannes.
 - Adding mutex_lock/unlock to satisfy the condition at
   rcu_dereference_protected

Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/sta_info.c