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)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 9a85215..7d82123 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
ndev->tstamp = jiffies;
addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev);
/* protected by rtnl_lock */
- rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev);
/* Join all-node multicast group */
ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allnodes);
@@ -2733,7 +2733,7 @@
idev->dead = 1;
/* protected by rtnl_lock */
- rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip6_ptr, NULL);
/* Step 1.5: remove snmp6 entry */
snmp6_unregister_dev(idev);