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jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patched
authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:55:51 +0000 (19:55 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:52:50 +0000 (08:52 -0800)
commit9140096a5b039dcdfbb0a005f4b9e6b17eb3123e
treea78847c0bd04fbdb4f3d15c9589f379919c3087b
parent248f3235861683bb1ffc7316b56bf783b162666f
jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patched

commit bbbf7af4bf8fc69bc751818cf30521080fa47dcb upstream.

If cpu A calls jump_label_inc() just after atomic_add_return() is
called by cpu B, atomic_inc_not_zero() will return value greater then
zero and jump_label_inc() will return to a caller before jump_label_update()
finishes its job on cpu B.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111018175551.GH17571@redhat.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/jump_label.c