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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-19 13:44:27 (GMT)
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2014-05-14 18:38:32 (GMT)
commit5fa12fb30ea0d5fd3154544e0c5b24fa4e10387a (patch)
tree260f93e9455ba7e823040f5ee54d32058bb8786d /fs
parent53e428bfed5ff026721d7d1711dca4356d0ba961 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-5fa12fb30ea0d5fd3154544e0c5b24fa4e10387a.tar.xz
fs: namespace preemption fix
On RT we cannot loop with preemption disabled here as mnt_make_readonly() might have been preempted. We can safely enable preemption while waiting for MNT_WRITE_HOLD to be cleared. Safe on !RT as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 84447db..6ed0fb1 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -315,8 +315,11 @@ int __mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *m)
* incremented count after it has set MNT_WRITE_HOLD.
*/
smp_mb();
- while (ACCESS_ONCE(mnt->mnt.mnt_flags) & MNT_WRITE_HOLD)
+ while (ACCESS_ONCE(mnt->mnt.mnt_flags) & MNT_WRITE_HOLD) {
+ preempt_enable();
cpu_relax();
+ preempt_disable();
+ }
/*
* After the slowpath clears MNT_WRITE_HOLD, mnt_is_readonly will
* be set to match its requirements. So we must not load that until