dm: use ACCESS_ONCE for sysfs values
Use the ACCESS_ONCE macro in dm-bufio and dm-verity where a variable can be modified asynchronously (through sysfs) and we want to prevent compiler optimizations that assume that the variable hasn't changed. (See Documentation/atomic_ops.txt.) Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static void verity_prefetch_io(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io)
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verity_hash_at_level(v, io->block, i, &hash_block_start, NULL);
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verity_hash_at_level(v, io->block + io->n_blocks - 1, i, &hash_block_end, NULL);
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if (!i) {
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unsigned cluster = *(volatile unsigned *)&dm_verity_prefetch_cluster;
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unsigned cluster = ACCESS_ONCE(dm_verity_prefetch_cluster);
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cluster >>= v->data_dev_block_bits;
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if (unlikely(!cluster))
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