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[PATCH] net/wireless: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in reg.c

From: Monam Agarwal <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-23 19:24:44
Also in: linux-wireless, lkml
Subsystem: 802.11 (including cfg80211/nl80211), the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
---
 net/wireless/reg.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 90b82e0..4dc08cc 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ void wiphy_regulatory_deregister(struct wiphy *wiphy)
 		reg_num_devs_support_basehint--;
 
 	rcu_free_regdom(get_wiphy_regdom(wiphy));
-	rcu_assign_pointer(wiphy->regd, NULL);
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(wiphy->regd, NULL);
 
 	if (lr)
 		request_wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(lr->wiphy_idx);
-- 
1.7.9.5
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