On 10/16/26 8:16 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> A future fuse patch will utilize dax_holder() in RCU context to make sure
> that the holder can't be freed by a racing fs_put_dax.
>
> This patch just makes sure that dax_holder() works properly in such a
> context by adding READ_ONCE() (equivalent to rcu_dereference minus sanity
> checks).
>
> Fixing XFS is out of scope for this patchset.
>
> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/dax/super.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
> index 25836f389bde..76e8d3654629 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/super.c
> +++ b/drivers/dax/super.c
> @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_dax);
> */
> void *dax_holder(struct dax_device *dax_dev)
> {
> - return dax_dev->holder_data;
> + return READ_ONCE(dax_dev->holder_data);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_holder);
>
