netdev - Re: [net-next] vxlan: use a more suitable function when assigning NULL

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Date:   Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:26:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     markb@...lanox.com
Cc:     jbenc@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next] vxlan: use a more suitable function when assigning
 NULL

From: Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2017 14:36:58 +0300

> When stopping the vxlan interface we detach it from the socket.
> Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() and not rcu_assign_pointer() to do so.
> 
> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks Mark.