From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756661AbaHVNwT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:52:19 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f178.google.com ([74.125.82.178]:53692 "EHLO mail-we0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756409AbaHVNwP (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:52:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:52:07 +0300 From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat To: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: [PATCH] afs: security: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() Message-ID: <20140822135207.GA31237@ada> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer. According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment: "1. This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer" it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a smaller overhead. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used: @@ @@ - rcu_assign_pointer + RCU_INIT_POINTER (..., NULL) Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat --- fs/afs/security.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/afs/security.c b/fs/afs/security.c index 8d01042..42f7cf3 100644 --- a/fs/afs/security.c +++ b/fs/afs/security.c @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ void afs_clear_permits(struct afs_vnode *vnode) mutex_lock(&vnode->permits_lock); permits = vnode->permits; - rcu_assign_pointer(vnode->permits, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(vnode->permits, NULL); mutex_unlock(&vnode->permits_lock); if (permits) -- 1.9.1