This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure       
is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. 
And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize. 
So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, 
NULL)

Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal...@gmail.com>
---
 fs/aio.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 062a5f6..c3d3eb6 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm)
                do {
                        if (!table || i >= table->nr) {
                                rcu_read_unlock();
-                               rcu_assign_pointer(mm->ioctx_table, NULL);
+                               RCU_INIT_POINTER(mm->ioctx_table, NULL);
                                if (table)
                                        kfree(table);
                                return;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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