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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2019-09-23 15:42:28 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2019-10-30 08:45:26 -0700
commite3f0d761fcaec5d445c9280d6e09087dc32828d2 (patch)
treea3d337505d464ae77766ac7a9f3296b243128f47 /net/core/dev.c
parentbpf/cgroup: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer() (diff)
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net/core: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
This commit replaces the use of rcu_swap_protected() with the more intuitively appealing rcu_replace_pointer() as a step towards removing rcu_swap_protected(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiAsJLw1egFEE=Z7-GGtM6wcvtyytXZA1+BHqta4gg6Hw@mail.gmail.com/ Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [ paulmck: From rcu_replace() to rcu_replace_pointer() per Ingo Molnar. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Cc: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index bf3ed413abaf..c5d8882d100f 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1288,8 +1288,8 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
}
mutex_lock(&ifalias_mutex);
- rcu_swap_protected(dev->ifalias, new_alias,
- mutex_is_locked(&ifalias_mutex));
+ new_alias = rcu_replace_pointer(dev->ifalias, new_alias,
+ mutex_is_locked(&ifalias_mutex));
mutex_unlock(&ifalias_mutex);
if (new_alias)