From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <[email protected]>

The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer.
According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment:
"1.   This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer"
it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a
smaller overhead.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
@@

- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
  (..., NULL)

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
---

 fs/afs/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/inode.c b/fs/afs/inode.c
index 8f4e70566e44..5707272adf18 100644
--- a/fs/afs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/afs/inode.c
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ void afs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 
        mutex_lock(&vnode->permits_lock);
        permits = vnode->permits;
-       rcu_assign_pointer(vnode->permits, NULL);
+       RCU_INIT_POINTER(vnode->permits, NULL);
        mutex_unlock(&vnode->permits_lock);
        if (permits)
                call_rcu(&permits->rcu, afs_zap_permits);

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