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/ibss.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211/ibss.c') diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c index 06d28787945b..35e4f94d7ba1 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_sta_join_ibss(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, presp = rcu_dereference_protected(ifibss->presp, lockdep_is_held(&sdata->wdev.mtx)); - rcu_assign_pointer(ifibss->presp, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(ifibss->presp, NULL); if (presp) kfree_rcu(presp, rcu_head); -- cgit v1.2.3