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-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qspinlock.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 348c8cec1042..d880296245c5 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -379,6 +379,14 @@ queue:
tail = encode_tail(smp_processor_id(), idx);
node += idx;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that we increment the head node->count before initialising
+ * the actual node. If the compiler is kind enough to reorder these
+ * stores, then an IRQ could overwrite our assignments.
+ */
+ barrier();
+
node->locked = 0;
node->next = NULL;
pv_init_node(node);