From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8372f4d83f96f35915106093cde4565836587123 upstream. The call to mte_set_dead_node() before the smp_wmb() already calls smp_wmb() so this is not needed. This is an optimization for the RCU mode of the maple tree. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-5-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 54a611b60590 ("Maple Tree: add new data structure") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/maple_tree.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/maple_tree.c b/lib/maple_tree.c index 0f0a2d4850e8..281be0997e55 100644 --- a/lib/maple_tree.c +++ b/lib/maple_tree.c @@ -5501,7 +5501,6 @@ unsigned char mas_dead_leaves(struct ma_state *mas, void __rcu **slots, break; mte_set_node_dead(entry); - smp_wmb(); /* Needed for RCU */ node->type = type; rcu_assign_pointer(slots[offset], node); } -- 2.39.2