Re: [PATCH 24/31] aio: remove an outdated comment in aio_complete

[Jeff Moyer]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes:

> These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as
> they never use it.  Remove the old comment, and move the BUG_ON for a sync
> iocb to the top of the function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Right, this should have been part of commit 599bd19bdc4c6 ("fs: don't
allow to complete sync iocbs through aio_complete").

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  fs/aio.c | 11 ++---------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index 03d59593912d..41fc8ce6bc7f 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -1088,6 +1088,8 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
>  	unsigned tail, pos, head;
>  	unsigned long	flags;
>  
> +	BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
> +
>  	if (kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_WRITE) {
>  		struct file *file = kiocb->ki_filp;
>  
> @@ -1100,15 +1102,6 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
>  		file_end_write(file);
>  	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Special case handling for sync iocbs:
> -	 *  - events go directly into the iocb for fast handling
> -	 *  - the sync task with the iocb in its stack holds the single iocb
> -	 *    ref, no other paths have a way to get another ref
> -	 *  - the sync task helpfully left a reference to itself in the iocb
> -	 */
> -	BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
> -
>  	if (iocb->ki_list.next) {
>  		unsigned long flags;