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| author | Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com> | 2014-03-24 00:51:43 +0530 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2014-04-09 10:55:30 +0200 |
| commit | 0c2bef4621c5feb5bda9068c9964b2e9acf57017 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c57534e45d0d072873dcab9b5fddf54b3fef6a7 /net/mac80211/mesh.c | |
| parent | 34dd886c19547ea138634b98a615ccd1fe42cd20 (diff) | |
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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 <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>
[squash eight tiny patches, rewrite commit log]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mesh.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/mesh.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c index f70e9cd10552..387f61c4557d 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c @@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_mesh(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED); bcn = rcu_dereference_protected(ifmsh->beacon, lockdep_is_held(&sdata->wdev.mtx)); - rcu_assign_pointer(ifmsh->beacon, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(ifmsh->beacon, NULL); kfree_rcu(bcn, rcu_head); /* flush STAs and mpaths on this iface */ @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ int ieee80211_mesh_finish_csa(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) /* Remove the CSA and MCSP elements from the beacon */ tmp_csa_settings = rcu_dereference(ifmsh->csa); - rcu_assign_pointer(ifmsh->csa, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(ifmsh->csa, NULL); if (tmp_csa_settings) kfree_rcu(tmp_csa_settings, rcu_head); ret = ieee80211_mesh_rebuild_beacon(sdata); @@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ int ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, ret = ieee80211_mesh_rebuild_beacon(sdata); if (ret) { tmp_csa_settings = rcu_dereference(ifmsh->csa); - rcu_assign_pointer(ifmsh->csa, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(ifmsh->csa, NULL); kfree_rcu(tmp_csa_settings, rcu_head); return ret; } |
