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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2007-12-05 10:45:05 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-05 20:21:18 +0300
commit372a302e9a892229206aafca0352584a745bc5f3 (patch)
tree14cf4e06735d8dd9284e843f36a5abcfcc4cc476 /drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
parent5cd17569fd0eeca510735e63a6061291e3971bf6 (diff)
downloadlinux-372a302e9a892229206aafca0352584a745bc5f3.tar.xz
RTC: assure proper memory ordering with respect to RTC_DEV_BUSY flag
We must make sure that the RTC_DEV_BUSY flag has proper lock semantics, i.e. that the RTC_DEV_BUSY stores clearing the flag don't get reordered before the preceeding stores and loads and vice versa. Spotted by Nick Piggin. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
index ae1bf177d625..025c60a17a4a 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
struct rtc_device, char_dev);
const struct rtc_class_ops *ops = rtc->ops;
- if (test_and_set_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags))
+ if (test_and_set_bit_lock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags))
return -EBUSY;
file->private_data = rtc;
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
}
/* something has gone wrong */
- clear_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
+ clear_bit_unlock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
return err;
}
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (rtc->ops->release)
rtc->ops->release(rtc->dev.parent);
- clear_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
+ clear_bit_unlock(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
return 0;
}