kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs

some atomic operations are only atomic, not ordered. Thus a CPU is allowed to reorder memory references to an object to before the reference is obtained. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mariux64 · Apr 27, 2007 · 1b0b3b9 · 1b0b3b9
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diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	atomic_set(&kref->refcount,1);
+	smp_mb();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	WARN_ON(!atomic_read(&kref->refcount));
 	atomic_inc(&kref->refcount);
+	smp_mb__after_atomic_inc();
 }
 
 /**