From: "Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
To: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>,
"Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
"ilw@linux.intel.com" <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"eliad@wizery.com" <eliad@wizery.com>,
"Lifshitz, Eytan" <eytan.lifshitz@intel.com>,
"eyal@wizery.com" <eyal@wizery.com>,
"Stepanov, Max" <Max.Stepanov@intel.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] drivers/net/wireless: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 07:49:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB303DBDB42@HASMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395599756-7861-1-git-send-email-monamagarwal123@gmail.com>
>
> 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 <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
Applied - with small change in commit log.
Thank you for your contribution.
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