Re: [PATCH] aio: clean up aio ring in the fail path

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Dec 06 2013 - 10:34:52 EST


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:19:06PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
> > Clean up the aio ring file in the fail path of aio_setup_ring
> > and ioctx_alloc. And maybe it can fix the GPF issue reported by
> > Dave Jones:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/25/898
>
> Good catch. I've applied this to my aio-next tree. It does indeed look
> like it could be the cause of Dave's GPF -- I'll try to trigger it with
> some other kernel debug options on and see if the EAGAIN failure case can
> trip it up.

I think I forgot to reply and let you know this seems to fix it for me.

Dave

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