vxlan: use a more suitable function when assigning NULL
When stopping the vxlan interface we detach it from the socket.
Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() and not rcu_assign_pointer() to do so.
Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index a6b5052..7cb21a0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -1077,10 +1077,10 @@ static void vxlan_sock_release(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan)
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
struct vxlan_sock *sock6 = rtnl_dereference(vxlan->vn6_sock);
- rcu_assign_pointer(vxlan->vn6_sock, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(vxlan->vn6_sock, NULL);
#endif
- rcu_assign_pointer(vxlan->vn4_sock, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(vxlan->vn4_sock, NULL);
synchronize_net();
vxlan_vs_del_dev(vxlan);