From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> (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 __blocking_notifier_call_chain() which simply compares the RCU-protected pointer against NULL with no dereferencing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> --- kernel/notifier.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c index 2d5cc4ccff7f..db4c8b08a50c 100644 --- a/kernel/notifier.c +++ b/kernel/notifier.c @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ int __blocking_notifier_call_chain(struct blocking_notifier_head *nh, * racy then it does not matter what the result of the test * is, we re-check the list after having taken the lock anyway: */ - if (rcu_dereference_raw(nh->head)) { + if (rcu_access_pointer(nh->head)) { down_read(&nh->rwsem); ret = notifier_call_chain(&nh->head, val, v, nr_to_call, nr_calls); -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
