Re: [PATCH] aio: fix potential leak in aio_run_iocb().

[Mateusz Guzik]

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 03:31:28AM +0000, Leon Yu wrote:
> iovec should be reclaimed whenever caller of rw_copy_check_uvector() returns,
> but it doesn't hold when failure happens right after aio_setup_vectored_rw().
> 

There is a proposal (wich a patch) to modify semantics of rw_copy_check_uvector
so that it frees stuff on error, taking care of this case as well:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/25/778

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Mateusz Guzik
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