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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/ipv4/gre.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/ipv4/gre.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/gre.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/gre.c b/net/ipv4/gre.c
index dbfc21de3479..8cb1ebb7cd74 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/gre.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ int gre_add_protocol(const struct gre_protocol *proto, u8 version)
if (gre_proto[version])
goto err_out_unlock;
- rcu_assign_pointer(gre_proto[version], proto);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(gre_proto[version], proto);
spin_unlock(&gre_proto_lock);
return 0;
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int gre_del_protocol(const struct gre_protocol *proto, u8 version)
if (rcu_dereference_protected(gre_proto[version],
lockdep_is_held(&gre_proto_lock)) != proto)
goto err_out_unlock;
- rcu_assign_pointer(gre_proto[version], NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(gre_proto[version], NULL);
spin_unlock(&gre_proto_lock);
synchronize_rcu();
return 0;