diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index fe54033d2c4b..595e63f6933f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 49f8a1a5394d8baee5e56fb71e5cf993c228689a
+refs/heads/master: 0ca0d818cbcbcac75a02833861b6fc42a98b904e
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h b/trunk/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
index 28feeba2fdd6..6080d2694bad 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ struct kimage_arch {
 };
 #endif
 
-extern void (*crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss)(void);
+typedef void crash_vmclear_fn(void);
+extern crash_vmclear_fn __rcu *crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss;
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 2f6b8e838d18..74467feb4dc5 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ int in_crash_kexec;
  *
  * protected by rcu.
  */
-void (*crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss)(void) = NULL;
+crash_vmclear_fn __rcu *crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss = NULL;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss);
 
 static inline void cpu_crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss(void)
 {
-	void (*do_vmclear_operation)(void) = NULL;
+	crash_vmclear_fn *do_vmclear_operation = NULL;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	do_vmclear_operation = rcu_dereference(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss);