RCU_INIT_POINTER() is not suitable here as it doesn't give us ordering guarantees (see the comment in rcupdate.h). This is also not a hotpath. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c index bfc79698b8f4..12efb3e34775 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ void netvsc_device_remove(struct hv_device *device) netvsc_revoke_buf(device, net_device); - RCU_INIT_POINTER(net_device_ctx->nvdev, NULL); + rcu_assign_pointer(net_device_ctx->nvdev, NULL); /* * At this point, no one should be accessing net_device -- 2.13.6 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
