On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 6:57 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2019/4/16 下午6:47, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > The vhost_scsi.ko code used several atomic variables at one point.
> > Later they were dropped or converted to regular ints protected by a
> > mutex.
> >
> > The commit that made these changes left an unused smp_mb__after_atomic()
> > in vhost_scsi_set_endpoint(). It was previously used after incrementing
> > vhost_scsi->vhost_ref_cnt but this field has been dropped:
> >
> > - atomic_inc(&vs->vhost_ref_cnt);
> > smp_mb__after_atomic_inc();
> >
> > Reported-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 101998f6fcd680 ("tcm_vhost: Post-merge review changes requested by MST")
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
> > index 618fb6461017..c090d177bd75 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
> > @@ -1443,7 +1443,6 @@ vhost_scsi_set_endpoint(struct vhost_scsi *vs,
> > tpg->tv_tpg_vhost_count++;
> > tpg->vhost_scsi = vs;
> > vs_tpg[tpg->tport_tpgt] = tpg;
> > - smp_mb__after_atomic();
> > match = true;
> > }
> > mutex_unlock(&tpg->tv_tpg_mutex);
>
>
> Looks like Paolo has sent an identical patch before this one.
Yes, Paolo's patch is fine.
Stefan
