lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20140822135207.GA31237@ada>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:52:07 +0300
From:	Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@...il.com>
To:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] afs: security: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with
 RCU_INIT_POINTER()

The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer.
According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment:
"1.   This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer"
it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a
smaller overhead.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
@@

- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
  (..., NULL)

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@...il.com>
---
 fs/afs/security.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/security.c b/fs/afs/security.c
index 8d01042..42f7cf3 100644
--- a/fs/afs/security.c
+++ b/fs/afs/security.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ void afs_clear_permits(struct afs_vnode *vnode)
 
 	mutex_lock(&vnode->permits_lock);
 	permits = vnode->permits;
-	rcu_assign_pointer(vnode->permits, NULL);
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(vnode->permits, NULL);
 	mutex_unlock(&vnode->permits_lock);
 
 	if (permits)
-- 
1.9.1

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ