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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2018-02-19 14:55:55 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-05-30 07:52:03 +0200
commit2565b271aed0199f5ff977429486e3b59e68e708 (patch)
tree5373b355805a84b424fcb94311856c0fcb489049 /fs/dcache.c
parent3623c1f37efaf6ab2eed458a2ad11e49ebc2e08b (diff)
fs: dcache: Use READ_ONCE when accessing i_dir_seq
[ Upstream commit 8cc07c808c9d595e81cbe5aad419b7769eb2e5c9 ] i_dir_seq is subject to concurrent modification by a cmpxchg or store-release operation, so ensure that the relaxed access in d_alloc_parallel uses READ_ONCE. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index e0d400c3005d..5f31a93150d1 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2510,7 +2510,7 @@ retry:
}
hlist_bl_lock(b);
- if (unlikely(parent->d_inode->i_dir_seq != seq)) {
+ if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(parent->d_inode->i_dir_seq) != seq)) {
hlist_bl_unlock(b);
rcu_read_unlock();
goto retry;