netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: reintroduce missing rcu_assign

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:47:51 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: reintroduce missing rcu_assign_pointer() calls

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:41:32 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> commit a9b3cd7f32 (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to
> RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a
> complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,
> y).
> 

Agreed. Looks like the script was too aggressive.

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