Re: [PATCH] move exit_task_work() before exit_fs().

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 03:45:25PM +0800, Leon Ma wrote:
> We encountered following panic. The scenario is the process is exiting and executing its
> task work. When closing dev node, the driver triggers a firmware reload according to device
> status. Because task->fs is set to NULL in exit_fs(), panic happens.
> Task work is a common interface, we should not limite the resource the user will utilize.

Fix your driver.  Forget ->fs being NULL; what will happen if your process
is chrooted?
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