Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] asm-generic: rwsem: ensure sem->cnt is only accessed via atomic_long_* | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:22:26 +0000 |
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The asm-generic rwsem implementation directly acceses sem->cnt when performing a __down_read_trylock operation. Whilst this is probably safe on all architectures, we should stick to the atomic_long_* API and use atomic_long_read instead.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> --- include/asm-generic/rwsem.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h b/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h index bb1e2cdeb9bf..75af612f54f8 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static inline int __down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem) { long tmp; - while ((tmp = sem->count) >= 0) { + while ((tmp = atomic_long_read((atomic_long_t *)&sem->count)) >= 0) { if (tmp == cmpxchg(&sem->count, tmp, tmp + RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS)) { return 1; -- 1.8.2.2
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