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/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6/addrconf.c') diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 9a852156a8f..7d82123b1d2 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev) ndev->tstamp = jiffies; addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev); /* protected by rtnl_lock */ - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev); /* Join all-node multicast group */ ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allnodes); @@ -2733,7 +2733,7 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, int how) idev->dead = 1; /* protected by rtnl_lock */ - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip6_ptr, NULL); /* Step 1.5: remove snmp6 entry */ snmp6_unregister_dev(idev); -- cgit v1.2.3