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

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:34:13AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

Excellent!  I'll send this out and get it queued up for -stable as well.

		-ben

> 	Dave

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