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The superfluous WRITE_ONCE() was added by commit 67b43038ce14 ("KVM: guest_memfd: Remove RCU-protected attribute from slot->gmem.file") to maintain rough "parity" with the existing rcu_assign_pointer(), not realizing that the only reason rcu_assign_pointer() was used was to make sparse and other checkers happy. Cc: Yan Zhao Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c index 0b48e9a775aa..6c8df67382fc 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ int kvm_gmem_bind(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, * kvm_gmem_bind() must occur on a new memslot. Because the memslot * is not visible yet, kvm_gmem_get_pfn() is guaranteed to see the file. */ - WRITE_ONCE(slot->gmem.file, file); + slot->gmem.file = file; slot->gmem.pgoff = start; if (kvm_gmem_supports_mmap(inode)) slot->flags |= KVM_MEMSLOT_GMEM_ONLY; -- 2.55.0.979.g7e5102b832-goog