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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-19 08:44:27 -0500
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-04-30 15:33:51 -0400
commitde2b37169dcfe934a14e31aa77425e30e69cc46d (patch)
tree6e38321304c287ca4707733d378968af71cd1202 /fs
parent35b5df865f99e3e23d0970679f82fd70302d4018 (diff)
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 4e465397e456..6dc617cd900b 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -313,8 +313,11 @@ int mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *m)
* incremented count after it has set MNT_WRITE_HOLD.
*/
smp_mb();
- while (mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_WRITE_HOLD)
+ while (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