From: Monam Agarwal Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:38:22 +0000 (+0530) Subject: drivers/staging: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in fwserial/fwserial.c X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.16/fixes-against-rc1~39^2~36^2~1309 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8429b0913a08d5779b93f5dc5e017cd48026b8b;p=pandora-kernel.git drivers/staging: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in fwserial/fwserial.c 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-diff-tree failed