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* [PATCH] vfs, freeze: use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to ->mnt_flags
@ 2012-11-16  9:23 Miao Xie
  2012-11-16 13:25 ` Al Viro
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Miao Xie @ 2012-11-16  9:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Fsdevel; +Cc: Jan Kara, Al Viro

The compiler may optimize the while loop and make the check just be done once,
so we should use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to ->mnt_flags

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 7bdf790..6eca68e 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ int __mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *m)
 	 * incremented count after it has set MNT_WRITE_HOLD.
 	 */
 	smp_mb();
-	while (mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_WRITE_HOLD)
+	while (ACCESS_ONCE(mnt->mnt.mnt_flags) & MNT_WRITE_HOLD)
 		cpu_relax();
 	/*
 	 * After the slowpath clears MNT_WRITE_HOLD, mnt_is_readonly will
-- 
1.7.11.7

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* Re: [PATCH] vfs, freeze: use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to ->mnt_flags
  2012-11-16  9:23 [PATCH] vfs, freeze: use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to ->mnt_flags Miao Xie
@ 2012-11-16 13:25 ` Al Viro
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Al Viro @ 2012-11-16 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Miao Xie; +Cc: Linux Fsdevel, Jan Kara

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:23:50PM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> The compiler may optimize the while loop and make the check just be done once,
> so we should use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to ->mnt_flags

Applied.

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