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 __alloc_fd(), which simply compares the RCU-protected pointer against NULL with no dereferencing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- fs/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c index db25c2bdfe46..18f7d27855c4 100644 --- a/fs/file.c +++ b/fs/file.c @@ -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); } -- 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/
