Commit ff7a5fb0 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar

overlayfs, locking: Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() usage

While we could replace the smp_mb__before_spinlock() with the new
smp_mb__after_spinlock(), the normal pattern is to use
smp_store_release() to publish an object that is used for
lockless_dereference() -- and mirrors the regular rcu_assign_pointer()
/ rcu_dereference() patterns.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 8b1b436d
......@@ -446,14 +446,14 @@ static int ovl_dir_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
ovl_path_upper(dentry, &upperpath);
realfile = ovl_path_open(&upperpath, O_RDONLY);
smp_mb__before_spinlock();
inode_lock(inode);
if (!od->upperfile) {
if (IS_ERR(realfile)) {
inode_unlock(inode);
return PTR_ERR(realfile);
}
od->upperfile = realfile;
smp_store_release(&od->upperfile, realfile);
} else {
/* somebody has beaten us to it */
if (!IS_ERR(realfile))
......
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