Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:19:16 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in tun.c | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:02:32 +0530
> 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@gmail.com>
Applied.
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