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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-08-01 16:19:00 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-08-02 04:29:23 -0700
commita9b3cd7f323b2e57593e7215362a7b02fc933e3a (patch)
treeeba1741956aef3015d5b1a07253bf93c4c1bc7df /net/core/filter.c
parentipv6: updates to privacy addresses per RFC 4941. (diff)
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rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER
When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon change to not handle the special case. Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value. //smpl @@ expression P; @@ - rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL) + RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/filter.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/filter.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 36f975fa87cb..8fcc2d776e09 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ int sk_detach_filter(struct sock *sk)
filter = rcu_dereference_protected(sk->sk_filter,
sock_owned_by_user(sk));
if (filter) {
- rcu_assign_pointer(sk->sk_filter, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(sk->sk_filter, NULL);
sk_filter_uncharge(sk, filter);
ret = 0;
}