The early alpha processors can't write a byte or short atomically - they read 8 bytes, modify the byte or two bytes in registers and write back 8 bytes. The modification of the variable "suspending" may race with modification of the variable "failed". This patch changes suspending to an int. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c 2018-06-29 23:13:54.990000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c 2018-06-29 23:13:54.980000000 +0200 @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ struct dm_integrity_c { __u8 sectors_per_block; unsigned char mode; - bool suspending; + int suspending; int failed; @@ -2214,7 +2214,7 @@ static void dm_integrity_postsuspend(str del_timer_sync(&ic->autocommit_timer); - ic->suspending = true; + WRITE_ONCE(ic->suspending, 1); queue_work(ic->commit_wq, &ic->commit_work); drain_workqueue(ic->commit_wq); @@ -2224,7 +2224,7 @@ static void dm_integrity_postsuspend(str dm_integrity_flush_buffers(ic); } - ic->suspending = false; + WRITE_ONCE(ic->suspending, 0); BUG_ON(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&ic->in_progress));