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authorMonam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>2014-03-24 00:42:46 +0530
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-03-27 00:18:09 -0400
commitfcb144b5df260d5005165589f958594facf1d6ae (patch)
tree955b894ce2971a5e38af4879f0365de3f4e7868b /net/core/netpoll.c
parentcd18721e527270f9afa5c8daabfb6403b01e3a92 (diff)
downloadlinux-fcb144b5df260d5005165589f958594facf1d6ae.tar.gz
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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/netpoll.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 7291dde93469..41c4e9ce1141 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);
 	}
 }