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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] block: io_context refcount fixes
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:34:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091204153443.GH8742@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259934762-16920-1-git-send-email-louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>

On Fri, Dec 04 2009, Louis Rilling wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When reading copy_io() I found probable refcounting issues with shared
> io_context. IIUC, the following two patches could fix those issues.
> If I am correct, then those fixes should go to stable too.
> 
> Based on v2.6.32 and compile-tested only.

Thanks, those both look correct. I will apply them, but please also do
whatever testing that caused you to find this in the first place (or was
it code inspection)?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-04 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-04 13:52 Louis Rilling
2009-12-04 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO Louis Rilling
2009-12-04 13:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: Fix io_context leak after failure of " Louis Rilling
2009-12-04 15:34 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-12-04 16:03   ` [RFC] block: io_context refcount fixes Louis Rilling

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