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| author | Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> | 2014-07-20 23:59:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> | 2014-07-21 00:01:16 -0700 |
| commit | d0d5864676dbccfb1337864a0ae6ce97e6342678 (patch) | |
| tree | 7caa674ec05a1797054cd4304f0a047b6dacddd6 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | 6534e6809e6c9d48114b537afe03bee3fd33bf01 (diff) | |
| parent | 9a3c4145af32125c5ee39c0272662b47307a8323 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.16-rc6' into MTD development branch
Linux 3.16-rc6
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 338e6f758c6d..e11d60cc867b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1921,6 +1921,12 @@ static inline int break_lease(struct inode *inode, unsigned int mode) static inline int break_deleg(struct inode *inode, unsigned int mode) { + /* + * Since this check is lockless, we must ensure that any refcounts + * taken are done before checking inode->i_flock. Otherwise, we could + * end up racing with tasks trying to set a new lease on this file. + */ + smp_mb(); if (inode->i_flock) return __break_lease(inode, mode, FL_DELEG); return 0; |