Re: [stable] [PATCH] bitops: Use volatile in generic atomic bitops.

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:21:19PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> The generic atomic bitops currently explicitly cast away the
> volatile from the pointer passed to them. This will allow the
> access to the bitfield to happen outside of the critical section
> thus making the bitops no longer interrupt-safe. Remove this cast
> and add a volatile keyword to make sure all accesses to the
> bitfield happen inside the critical section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@imgtec.com>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h |   12 ++++++------
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
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