Re: [PATCH] Do not free io context when taking recursive faults in do_exit

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Nov 19 2008, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> When taking recursive faults in do_exit, if the io_context is not null, 
> exit_io_context() is being called. But it might decrement the refcount 
> more than once. It is better to leave this task alone.

Agree, it's better to just leave that alone. Applied to for-2.6.29.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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