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authorMonam Agarwal2014-03-23 20:21:43 +0100
committerJohannes Berg2014-04-09 10:55:30 +0200
commit0c2bef4621c5feb5bda9068c9964b2e9acf57017 (patch)
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parentcfg80211: regulatory: use RCU_INIT_POINTER (diff)
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mac80211: use RCU_INIT_POINTER
rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. However, in the case that NULL is assigned there's no structure to initialize so using RCU_INIT_POINTER instead is safe and more efficient. Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com> [squash eight tiny patches, rewrite commit log] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/util.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/util.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 5cf62ec74c14..73af7398850b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ int ieee80211_reconfig(struct ieee80211_local *local)
WARN_ON(local->resuming);
res = drv_add_interface(local, sdata);
if (WARN_ON(res)) {
- rcu_assign_pointer(local->monitor_sdata, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->monitor_sdata, NULL);
synchronize_net();
kfree(sdata);
}