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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-02-29 12:12:46 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-02-29 12:16:43 -0500
commita528aca7f359f4b0b1d72ae406097e491a5ba9ea (patch)
tree26b95bc4e207d3bd6afc11affbfa0fe85ac53b6a /include
parent5129fa482b16615fd4464d2f5d23acb1b7056c66 (diff)
downloadlinux-a528aca7f359f4b0b1d72ae406097e491a5ba9ea.tar.gz
use ->d_seq to get coherency between ->d_inode and ->d_flags
Games with ordering and barriers are way too brittle.  Just
bump ->d_seq before and after updating ->d_inode and ->d_flags
type bits, so that verifying ->d_seq would guarantee they are
coherent.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dcache.h4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 7781ce110503..c4b5f4b3f8f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -409,9 +409,7 @@ static inline bool d_mountpoint(const struct dentry *dentry)
  */
 static inline unsigned __d_entry_type(const struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	unsigned type = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_flags);
-	smp_rmb();
-	return type & DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE;
+	return dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE;
 }
 
 static inline bool d_is_miss(const struct dentry *dentry)