Clean up: The comment and the placement of the memory barrier is confusing. Humans want to read the function statements from head to tail. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c index bfc057fdb75f..af85cec0ce31 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c @@ -592,14 +592,16 @@ static void frwr_wc_localinv_done(struct ib_cq *cq, struct ib_wc *wc) struct rpcrdma_frwr *frwr = container_of(cqe, struct rpcrdma_frwr, fr_cqe); struct rpcrdma_mr *mr = container_of(frwr, struct rpcrdma_mr, frwr); - struct rpcrdma_rep *rep = mr->mr_req->rl_reply; + struct rpcrdma_rep *rep; /* WARNING: Only wr_cqe and status are reliable at this point */ trace_xprtrdma_wc_li_done(wc, &frwr->fr_cid); - frwr_mr_done(wc, mr); - /* Ensure @rep is generated before frwr_mr_done */ + /* Ensure that @rep is generated before the MR is released */ + rep = mr->mr_req->rl_reply; smp_rmb(); + + frwr_mr_done(wc, mr); rpcrdma_complete_rqst(rep); rpcrdma_flush_disconnect(cq->cq_context, wc);