Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Gross <> | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:12:20 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/openvswitch: Use with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in vport-gre.c |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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