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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-19 08:44:27 -0500
committerSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2016-12-23 17:14:37 +0100
commitdb10656a8bbebda2cd7054c1ae250b3a43031d78 (patch)
treea85ff41935921dc093ee2469d448b926261270dc /fs
parent13a29b9e4e6490559e49653e60ebf56d946c15ba (diff)
downloadlinux-rt-db10656a8bbebda2cd7054c1ae250b3a43031d78.tar.gz
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 e6c234b1a645..e2d82ac61796 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -356,8 +356,11 @@ int __mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *m)
* incremented count after it has set MNT_WRITE_HOLD.
*/
smp_mb();
- while (ACCESS_ONCE(mnt->mnt.mnt_flags) & MNT_WRITE_HOLD)
+ while (ACCESS_ONCE(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