This barrier only applies to the read-modify-write operations; in particular, it does not apply to the atomic_set() primitive. Replace the barrier with an smp_mb(). Fixes: dac56212e8127 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_cnt for most use cases") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- include/linux/bio.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h index e584673c18814..5becbafb84e8a 100644 --- a/include/linux/bio.h +++ b/include/linux/bio.h @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static inline void bio_cnt_set(struct bio *bio, unsigned int count) { if (count != 1) { bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_REFFED); - smp_mb__before_atomic(); + smp_mb(); } atomic_set(&bio->__bi_cnt, count); } -- 2.7.4