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authorMonam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>2014-03-24 00:51:43 +0530
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-04-09 10:55:30 +0200
commit0c2bef4621c5feb5bda9068c9964b2e9acf57017 (patch)
tree0c57534e45d0d072873dcab9b5fddf54b3fef6a7 /net/mac80211/scan.c
parent34dd886c19547ea138634b98a615ccd1fe42cd20 (diff)
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/scan.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/scan.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index 3ce7f2c8539a..28185c8dc19a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_scan_completed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool aborted)
if (local->scan_req != local->int_scan_req)
cfg80211_scan_done(local->scan_req, aborted);
local->scan_req = NULL;
- rcu_assign_pointer(local->scan_sdata, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->scan_sdata, NULL);
local->scanning = 0;
local->scan_chandef.chan = NULL;
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ static int __ieee80211_start_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
ieee80211_recalc_idle(local);
local->scan_req = NULL;
- rcu_assign_pointer(local->scan_sdata, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->scan_sdata, NULL);
}
return rc;
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work)
int rc;
local->scan_req = NULL;
- rcu_assign_pointer(local->scan_sdata, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->scan_sdata, NULL);
rc = __ieee80211_start_scan(sdata, req);
if (rc) {
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ out_free:
if (ret) {
/* Clean in case of failure after HW restart or upon resume. */
- rcu_assign_pointer(local->sched_scan_sdata, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->sched_scan_sdata, NULL);
local->sched_scan_req = NULL;
}
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ void ieee80211_sched_scan_stopped_work(struct work_struct *work)
return;
}
- rcu_assign_pointer(local->sched_scan_sdata, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->sched_scan_sdata, NULL);
/* If sched scan was aborted by the driver. */
local->sched_scan_req = NULL;