direct-io: Use return from cmpxchg to decide of assignment happened
authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Mon, 9 Sep 2013 17:34:23 +0000 (10:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 9 Sep 2013 17:47:42 +0000 (10:47 -0700)
Not using the return value can in the generic case be racy, so it's
in general good practice to check the return value instead.

This also resolved the warning caused on ARM and other architectures:

  fs/direct-io.c: In function 'sb_init_dio_done_wq':
  fs/direct-io.c:557:2: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/direct-io.c

index 1782023bd68a6655d6def2258263d22080c06c33..0e04142d5962312fcb055738479247b2364a252e 100644 (file)
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ static inline int dio_bio_reap(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio)
  */
 static int sb_init_dio_done_wq(struct super_block *sb)
 {
+       struct workqueue_struct *old;
        struct workqueue_struct *wq = alloc_workqueue("dio/%s",
                                                      WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0,
                                                      sb->s_id);
@@ -552,9 +553,9 @@ static int sb_init_dio_done_wq(struct super_block *sb)
        /*
         * This has to be atomic as more DIOs can race to create the workqueue
         */
-       cmpxchg(&sb->s_dio_done_wq, NULL, wq);
+       old = cmpxchg(&sb->s_dio_done_wq, NULL, wq);
        /* Someone created workqueue before us? Free ours... */
-       if (wq != sb->s_dio_done_wq)
+       if (old)
                destroy_workqueue(wq);
        return 0;
 }