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>
---
 net/mac80211/debugfs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
index fa16e54..0e963bc 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static ssize_t sta_tx_latency_stat_write(struct file *file,
        if (!strcmp(buf, TX_LATENCY_DISABLED)) {
                if (!tx_latency)
                        goto unlock;
-               rcu_assign_pointer(local->tx_latency, NULL);
+               RCU_INIT_POINTER(local->tx_latency, NULL);
                synchronize_rcu();
                kfree(tx_latency);
                goto unlock;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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