Re: next-20130117 - kernel BUG with aio

[Hillf Danton]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Am seeing a reproducible BUG in the kernel with next-20130117
> whenever I fire up VirtualBox.  Unfortunately, I hadn't done that
> in a while, so the last 'known good' kernel was next-20121203.
>
> I'm strongly suspecting one of Kent Overstreet's 32 patches against aio,
> because 'git blame' shows those landing on Jan 12, and not much else
> happening to fs/aio.c in ages.
>
Take a try?
---
--- a/fs/aio.c	Tue Jan 22 21:37:54 2013
+++ b/fs/aio.c	Tue Jan 22 21:43:58 2013
@@ -683,6 +683,9 @@ static inline void kioctx_ring_unlock(st
 {
 	struct aio_ring *ring;

+	if (!ctx)
+		return;
+
 	smp_wmb();
 	/* make event visible before updating tail */

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