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Message-Id: <1395601966-12490-1-git-send-email-monamagarwal123@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:42:46 +0530 From: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@...il.com> To: davem@...emloft.net, ebiederm@...ssion.com, nhorman@...driver.com, cwang@...pensource.com, kaber@...sh.net, antonio@...hcoding.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] net/core: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in netpoll.c This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize. So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL) Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@...il.com> --- net/core/netpoll.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index 7291dde..41c4e9c 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np) if (ops->ndo_netpoll_cleanup) ops->ndo_netpoll_cleanup(np->dev); - rcu_assign_pointer(np->dev->npinfo, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL); call_rcu_bh(&npinfo->rcu, rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info); } } -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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