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fs: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw() 

(Trivial patch.)

If the code is looking at the RCU-protected pointer itself, but not
dereferencing it, the rcu_dereference() functions can be downgraded to
rcu_access_pointer().  This commit makes this downgrade in __alloc_fd(),
which simply compares the RCU-protected pointer against NULL with no
dereferencing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney 2014-02-12 12:51:09 -08:00
parent ae1670339c
commit add1f09954
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ repeat:
error = fd;
#if 1
/* Sanity check */
if (rcu_dereference_raw(fdt->fd[fd]) != NULL) {
if (rcu_access_pointer(fdt->fd[fd]) != NULL) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "alloc_fd: slot %d not NULL!\n", fd);
rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], NULL);
}