[PATCH v9 09/11] seccomp: introduce writer locking

Oleg Nesterov oleg at redhat.com
Wed Jul 9 11:59:36 PDT 2014


On 06/27, Kees Cook wrote:
>
>  void put_seccomp_filter(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
> -	struct seccomp_filter *orig = tsk->seccomp.filter;
> +	struct seccomp_filter *orig = smp_load_acquire(&tsk->seccomp.filter);
>  	/* Clean up single-reference branches iteratively. */
>  	while (orig && atomic_dec_and_test(&orig->usage)) {

And this smp_load_acquire() looks unnecessary. atomic_dec_and_test()
is a barrier.

Oleg.




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list