From: Oleg Nesterov Make sure that spin_unlock_wait() is properly ordered wrt atomic_inc(). (akpm: can't we convert this code to use rwlocks?) Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- net/dccp/ccid.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN net/dccp/ccid.c~fix-theoretical-ccids_readwrite_lock-race net/dccp/ccid.c --- a/net/dccp/ccid.c~fix-theoretical-ccids_readwrite_lock-race +++ a/net/dccp/ccid.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ static inline void ccids_write_unlock(vo static inline void ccids_read_lock(void) { atomic_inc(&ccids_lockct); + smp_mb__after_atomic_inc(); spin_unlock_wait(&ccids_lock); } _