While we could replace the smp_mb__before_spinlock() with the new smp_mb__after_spinlock(), the normal pattern is to use smp_store_release() to publish an object that is used for lockless_dereference() -- and mirrors the regular rcu_assign_pointer() / rcu_dereference() patterns. Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c @@ -446,14 +446,14 @@ static int ovl_dir_fsync(struct file *fi ovl_path_upper(dentry, &upperpath); realfile = ovl_path_open(&upperpath, O_RDONLY); - smp_mb__before_spinlock(); + inode_lock(inode); if (!od->upperfile) { if (IS_ERR(realfile)) { inode_unlock(inode); return PTR_ERR(realfile); } - od->upperfile = realfile; + smp_store_release(&od->upperfile, realfile); } else { /* somebody has beaten us to it */ if (!IS_ERR(realfile))