om rcu_assign_pointer() is not used, and using it would be quite ugly, for example: q = rcu_assign_pointer(global_p, p); To prevent this sort of ugliness from spreading, this commit wraps rcu_assign_pointer() in a do-while loop. Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Reported-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett