Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nfnetlink: silence warning ifCONFIG_PROVE_RCU isn't set

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Mon Mar 04 2013 - 10:59:55 EST


On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 01:45:41PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Since commit c14b78e7decd0d1d5add6a4604feb8609fe920a9 ("netfilter:
> nfnetlink: add mutex per subsystem") building nefnetlink.o without
> CONFIG_PROVE_RCU set, triggers this GCC warning:
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:65:22: warning: ânfnl_get_lockâ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>
> The cause of that warning is, in short, that rcu_lockdep_assert()
> compiles away if CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is not set. Silence this warning by
> open coding nfnl_get_lock() in the sole place it was called, which
> allows to remove that function.

Applied, thanks Paul.
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