[PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/12] rcu: No ordering for rcu_assign_pointer() of NULL

[Paul E. McKenney]

This commit does a compile-time check for rcu_assign_pointer() of NULL,
and uses WRITE_ONCE() rather than smp_store_release() in that case.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index c61b6b9506e7..9be61e47badc 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -650,7 +650,16 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
  * please be careful when making changes to rcu_assign_pointer() and the
  * other macros that it invokes.
  */
-#define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) smp_store_release(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER(v))
+#define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) \
+({ \
+	uintptr_t _r_a_p__v = (uintptr_t)(v); \
+	\
+	if (__builtin_constant_p(v) && (_r_a_p__v) == (uintptr_t)NULL) \
+		WRITE_ONCE((p), (typeof(p))(_r_a_p__v)); \
+	else \
+		smp_store_release(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER((typeof(p))_r_a_p__v)); \
+	_r_a_p__v; \
+})
 
 /**
  * rcu_access_pointer() - fetch RCU pointer with no dereferencing
-- 
2.5.2