Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE()

From	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE()
Date	2016-11-24 12:40 +0100
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:25:12 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:

> The virtio tools implementation of READ_ONCE() has a single parameter called
> 'var', but erroneously refers to 'val' for its cast, and thus won't work unless
> there's a variable of the correct type that happens to be called 'var'.
> 
> Fix this with s/var/val/, making READ_ONCE() work as expected regardless.
> 
> Fixes: a7c490333df3cff5 ("tools/virtio: use virt_xxx barriers")
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> ---
>  tools/virtio/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

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[PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 03:50 +0100
  [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE() Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE() Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 03:40 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] tools/virtio: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in uaccess.h Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/virtio: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in uaccess.h Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/virtio: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in uaccess.h Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 03:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 21:40 +0100

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