From 0c2bef4621c5feb5bda9068c9964b2e9acf57017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Monam Agarwal Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:51:43 +0530 Subject: mac80211: use RCU_INIT_POINTER rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. However, in the case that NULL is assigned there's no structure to initialize so using RCU_INIT_POINTER instead is safe and more efficient. Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal [squash eight tiny patches, rewrite commit log] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211/cfg.c') diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c index aaa59d719592..906bc3b05aae 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ static int ieee80211_change_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, if (sta->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN && sta->sdata->u.vlan.sta) { - rcu_assign_pointer(sta->sdata->u.vlan.sta, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(sta->sdata->u.vlan.sta, NULL); prev_4addr = true; } -- cgit v1.2.3