READ_ONCE and WRITE_ONCE are useless when there is only one read/write is being made.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> --- fs/proc/base.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file)); if (!task) return -ESRCH; - WRITE_ONCE(task->fail_nth, n); + task->fail_nth = n; put_task_struct(task); return count; @@ -1387,8 +1387,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file)); if (!task) return -ESRCH; - len = snprintf(numbuf, sizeof(numbuf), "%u\n", - READ_ONCE(task->fail_nth)); + len = snprintf(numbuf, sizeof(numbuf), "%u\n", task->fail_nth); len = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, numbuf, len); put_task_struct(task);

