The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer.
According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment:
"1. This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer"
it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a
smaller overhead.
The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
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- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
(..., NULL)
Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
for_each_active_dev_scope(devices, count, index, tmp)
if (tmp == &info->dev->dev) {
- rcu_assign_pointer(devices[index].dev, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(devices[index].dev, NULL);
synchronize_rcu();
put_device(tmp);
return 1;