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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/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
parent76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 (diff)
downloadlinux-a9b3cd7f323b2e57593e7215362a7b02fc933e3a.tar.gz
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/netfilter/nfnetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
index 1905976b5135ec..c879c1a2370e46 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int nfnetlink_subsys_register(const struct nfnetlink_subsystem *n)
nfnl_unlock();
return -EBUSY;
}
- rcu_assign_pointer(subsys_table[n->subsys_id], n);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(subsys_table[n->subsys_id], n);
nfnl_unlock();
return 0;
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int __net_init nfnetlink_net_init(struct net *net)
if (!nfnl)
return -ENOMEM;
net->nfnl_stash = nfnl;
- rcu_assign_pointer(net->nfnl, nfnl);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->nfnl, nfnl);
return 0;
}
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static void __net_exit nfnetlink_net_exit_batch(struct list_head *net_exit_list)
struct net *net;
list_for_each_entry(net, net_exit_list, exit_list)
- rcu_assign_pointer(net->nfnl, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->nfnl, NULL);
synchronize_net();
list_for_each_entry(net, net_exit_list, exit_list)
netlink_kernel_release(net->nfnl_stash);