[PATCH] net/openvswitch: Use with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in vport-gre.c

From: Monam Agarwal
Date: Sun Mar 23 2014 - 15:23:54 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c b/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
index a3d6951..a0da2dd 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static void gre_tnl_destroy(struct vport *vport)

ovs_net = net_generic(net, ovs_net_id);

- rcu_assign_pointer(ovs_net->vport_net.gre_vport, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(ovs_net->vport_net.gre_vport, NULL);
ovs_vport_deferred_free(vport);
gre_exit();
}
--
1.7.9.5

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