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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:36:30 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Maddie Stone <maddiestone@...gle.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	kernel-team@...roid.com,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH 08/21] Revert "list: Use WRITE_ONCE() when initializing list_head structures"

This reverts commit 2f073848c3cc8aff2655ab7c46d8c0de90cf4e50.

There is no need to use WRITE_ONCE() to initialise a non-RCU 'list_head'.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/list.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index c7331c259792..b86a3f9465d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
  */
 static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list)
 {
-	WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list);
+	list->next = list;
 	list->prev = list;
 }
 
-- 
2.20.1

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