From 57d88182ea3e8763111882671fd7462289272f64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Bloch Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 14:36:58 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] vxlan: use a more suitable function when assigning NULL When stopping the vxlan interface we detach it from the socket. Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() and not rcu_assign_pointer() to do so. Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c index a6b5052..7cb21a0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c @@ -1077,10 +1077,10 @@ static void vxlan_sock_release(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan) #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) struct vxlan_sock *sock6 = rtnl_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock); - rcu_assign_pointer(vxlan->vn6_sock, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(vxlan->vn6_sock, NULL); #endif - rcu_assign_pointer(vxlan->vn4_sock, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(vxlan->vn4_sock, NULL); synchronize_net(); vxlan_vs_del_dev(vxlan); -- 2.7.4