From a9b3cd7f323b2e57593e7215362a7b02fc933e3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:19:00 +0000 Subject: 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) // Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netfilter/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/netfilter/core.c') diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c index 899b71c0ff5d..3346829ea07f 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/core.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ int nf_register_afinfo(const struct nf_afinfo *afinfo) err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&afinfo_mutex); if (err < 0) return err; - rcu_assign_pointer(nf_afinfo[afinfo->family], afinfo); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_afinfo[afinfo->family], afinfo); mutex_unlock(&afinfo_mutex); return 0; } @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_register_afinfo); void nf_unregister_afinfo(const struct nf_afinfo *afinfo) { mutex_lock(&afinfo_mutex); - rcu_assign_pointer(nf_afinfo[afinfo->family], NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_afinfo[afinfo->family], NULL); mutex_unlock(&afinfo_mutex); synchronize_rcu(); } -- cgit v1.2.3