From: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 998267900cee901c5d1dfa029a6304d00acbc29f upstream. smp_mb__before_atomic() can not be applied to atomic_set(). Remove the barrier and rely on RELEASE synchronization. Fixes: ba16b2846a8c6 ("kernfs: add an API to get kernfs node from inode number") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/kernfs/dir.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -650,11 +650,10 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_ kn->id.generation = gen; /* - * set ino first. This barrier is paired with atomic_inc_not_zero in + * set ino first. This RELEASE is paired with atomic_inc_not_zero in * kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_ino */ - smp_mb__before_atomic(); - atomic_set(&kn->count, 1); + atomic_set_release(&kn->count, 1); atomic_set(&kn->active, KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS); RB_CLEAR_NODE(&kn->rb);