Re: [PATCH 2/4] fscache: Fix race in fscache_op_complete() due to split atomic_sub & read

From: Andrea Parri
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 12:48:59 EST


On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 04:32:13PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Fix this by using atomic_sub_return() instead of two calls.
> >
> > Seems a case for atomic_sub_return_relaxed()... why not?
>
> Ummm... In that case, should it be atomic_sub_return_release()?

Hard to tell for me: your diff./changelog is all I know about fs-cache
... (and this suggests -no-, given that atomic_sub() and atomic_read()
provide no ordering...); good question though. ;-)

Andrea


>
> David