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[PATCH] ipv6: sit: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()

From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-26 13:46:44
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Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment 3.a, it can be used if
"3.   The referenced data structure has already been exposed to readers either
at compile time or via rcu_assign_pointer() -and-
 a.   You have not made -any- reader-visible changes to this structure since
then".

This case fulfills the conditions above because between the rtnl_dereference()
call and the rcu_assign_pointer() call there is no update of that value.
Therefore, this patch makes the replacement.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
@@

- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
  (...,
(
 rtnl_dereference(...)
|
 rcu_dereference_protected(...)
) )

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <redacted>
---
 net/ipv6/sit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/sit.c b/net/ipv6/sit.c
index 4f40817..24c2dba 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/sit.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static void ipip6_tunnel_link(struct sit_net *sitn, struct ip_tunnel *t)
 {
 	struct ip_tunnel __rcu **tp = ipip6_bucket(sitn, t);
 
-	rcu_assign_pointer(t->next, rtnl_dereference(*tp));
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(t->next, rtnl_dereference(*tp));
 	rcu_assign_pointer(*tp, t);
 }
 
-- 
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