1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 0ba0866230c9..a225d5ee3c2f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
         ndev->tstamp = jiffies;
         addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev);
         /* protected by rtnl_lock */
-        RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev);
+        rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev);
 
         /* Join all-node multicast group */
         ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allnodes);