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authorMadhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>2020-01-27 18:58:21 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2020-02-28 13:34:36 +0100
commit0c282b068eb26db0e85e2ab4ec6d1e932acda841 (patch)
tree428651064e77e47c30c9ff551691ebf135bee3c4 /kernel
parentLinux 5.6-rc1 (diff)
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fork: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() instead of rcu_access_pointer()
Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() instead of rcu_access_pointer() in copy_sighand(). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> [christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: edit commit message] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200127175821.10833-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 60a1295f4384..86425305cd4a 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
return 0;
}
sig = kmem_cache_alloc(sighand_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
- rcu_assign_pointer(tsk->sighand, sig);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(tsk->sighand, sig);
if (!sig)
return -ENOMEM;