From 1c44dbc82f75aabc5de95da92b304393a94751fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Monam Agarwal Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:38:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed