From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Monam Agarwal Subject: [PATCH] fs: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in file.c Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:13:31 +0530 Message-ID: <1395600211-9034-1-git-send-email-monamagarwal123@gmail.com> To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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 --- fs/file.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c index 60a45e9..f87f265 100644 --- a/fs/file.c +++ b/fs/file.c @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ repeat: /* Sanity check */ if (rcu_dereference_raw(fdt->fd[fd]) != NULL) { printk(KERN_WARNING "alloc_fd: slot %d not NULL!\n", fd); - rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); } #endif @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ int __close_fd(struct files_struct *files, unsigned fd) file = fdt->fd[fd]; if (!file) goto out_unlock; - rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); __clear_close_on_exec(fd, fdt); __put_unused_fd(files, fd); spin_unlock(&files->file_lock); @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ void do_close_on_exec(struct files_struct *files) file = fdt->fd[fd]; if (!file) continue; - rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); __put_unused_fd(files, fd); spin_unlock(&files->file_lock); filp_close(file, files); -- 1.7.9.5