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>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 5cf62ec..73af739 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@
WARN_ON(local->resuming);
res = drv_add_interface(local, sdata);
if (WARN_ON(res)) {
- rcu_assign_pointer(local->monitor_sdata, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->monitor_sdata, NULL);
synchronize_net();
kfree(sdata);
}