From 7e105057a34c83cea542dacc55ff0528bce67afa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:01:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kfifo: fix kfifo_out_locked race bug Fix a wrong optimization in include/linux/kfifo.h which could cause a race in kfifo_out_locked. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Reported-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- include/linux/kfifo.h | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kfifo.h b/include/linux/kfifo.h index 7c6b32a1421c..c4ac88b3c302 100644 --- a/include/linux/kfifo.h +++ b/include/linux/kfifo.h @@ -228,13 +228,6 @@ static inline __must_check unsigned int kfifo_out_locked(struct kfifo *fifo, ret = kfifo_out(fifo, to, n); - /* - * optimization: if the FIFO is empty, set the indices to 0 - * so we don't wrap the next time - */ - if (kfifo_is_empty(fifo)) - kfifo_reset(fifo); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags); return ret; -- 2.20.1