From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:09:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.1/fixes-rc1~116^2~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4bf46a272647d89e780126b52eda04737defd9f4;p=pandora-kernel.git

VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags

Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags to avoid the need to do
this:

	if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) {

when this:

	if (d_is_negative(dentry)) {

should suffice.

This check is especially problematic if a dentry can have its type field set
to something other than DENTRY_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL (as in
unionmount).

What we really need to do is stick a write barrier between setting d_inode and
setting d_flags and a read barrier between reading d_flags and reading
d_inode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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