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authorAndrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>2019-05-20 19:23:56 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-05-23 10:25:26 -0600
commitf381c6a4bd0ae0fde2d6340f1b9bb0f58d915de6 (patch)
tree2d5ef689b770af2852e94a2d7a29daf8a8d00f45 /include
parent389468e76b6778c714af49f590de9efe3415c162 (diff)
downloadlinux-f381c6a4bd0ae0fde2d6340f1b9bb0f58d915de6.tar.gz
bio: fix improper use of smp_mb__before_atomic()
This barrier only applies to the read-modify-write operations; in
particular, it does not apply to the atomic_set() primitive.

Replace the barrier with an smp_mb().

Fixes: dac56212e8127 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_cnt for most use cases")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/bio.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index ea73df36529a..0f23b5682640 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static inline void bio_cnt_set(struct bio *bio, unsigned int count)
 {
 	if (count != 1) {
 		bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_REFFED);
-		smp_mb__before_atomic();
+		smp_mb();
 	}
 	atomic_set(&bio->__bi_cnt, count);
 }