fs/proc/inode.c: use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

Replace 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>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 8f20e3404fd2a711b3b6df63889971f78a157cdc..0adbc02d60e37b11942ef59dbda74b26f05a5f4c 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static void proc_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
                pde_put(de);
        head = PROC_I(inode)->sysctl;
        if (head) {
-               rcu_assign_pointer(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl, NULL);
+               RCU_INIT_POINTER(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl, NULL);
                sysctl_head_put(head);
        }
        /* Release any associated namespace */