From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:51:09 +0000 (-0800) Subject: fs: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw() X-Git-Tag: next-20140306~34^2~19^2^2~1^2~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=add1f0995454374d90c9d6b2c420d2fba3d0a4e3;p=karo-tx-linux.git 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 Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- 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); }