From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:06:09 +0000 (+0300) Subject: br_multicast: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() X-Git-Tag: fixes-against-v3.18-rc2~81^2~258 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0932997e34bad52353c25756c55ccf97c522ae7c;p=pandora-kernel.git br_multicast: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer. According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment: "1. This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer" it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a smaller overhead. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used: @@ @@ - rcu_assign_pointer + RCU_INIT_POINTER (..., NULL) Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed