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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2007-12-04 23:45:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-05 09:21:18 -0800
commit372a302e9a892229206aafca0352584a745bc5f3 (patch)
tree14cf4e06735d8dd9284e843f36a5abcfcc4cc476 /drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
parent5cd17569fd0eeca510735e63a6061291e3971bf6 (diff)
downloadlinux-372a302e9a892229206aafca0352584a745bc5f3.tar.gz
RTC: assure proper memory ordering with respect to RTC_DEV_BUSY flag
We must make sure that the RTC_DEV_BUSY flag has proper lock semantics,
i.e.  that the RTC_DEV_BUSY stores clearing the flag don't get reordered
before the preceeding stores and loads and vice versa.

Spotted by Nick Piggin.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
index ae1bf177d625..025c60a17a4a 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 					struct rtc_device, char_dev);
 	const struct rtc_class_ops *ops = rtc->ops;
 
-	if (test_and_set_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags))
+	if (test_and_set_bit_lock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
 	file->private_data = rtc;
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	}
 
 	/* something has gone wrong */
-	clear_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
+	clear_bit_unlock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	if (rtc->ops->release)
 		rtc->ops->release(rtc->dev.parent);
 
-	clear_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
+	clear_bit_unlock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
 	return 0;
 }