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/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c') diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index 7dec88a1755..e58aa9b1fe8 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct nlattr * const cda[]) if (help && help->helper) { /* we had a helper before ... */ nf_ct_remove_expectations(ct); - rcu_assign_pointer(help->helper, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(help->helper, NULL); } return 0; @@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct nlattr * const cda[]) return -EOPNOTSUPP; } - rcu_assign_pointer(help->helper, helper); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(help->helper, helper); return 0; } @@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct net *net, u16 zone, } /* not in hash table yet so not strictly necessary */ - rcu_assign_pointer(help->helper, helper); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(help->helper, helper); } } else { /* try an implicit helper assignation */ -- cgit v1.2.3