Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: remove rcu_read_lock() in erofs_try_to_free_cached_page

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Wed Feb 20 2019 - 05:34:24 EST




On 2019/2/20 18:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:38:53AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Could you consider take some time on these two patches for linux-5.1-rc1?
>> 1) staging: erofs: fix race of initializing xattrs of a inode at the same time
>> 2) staging: erofs: remove rcu_read_lock() in erofs_try_to_free_cached_page
>>
>> It will be of great help, especially patch 1 (it could cause potential memleak
>> in the race condition without it).
>
> Ok, I'll queue them up now, I was waiting for reviewed-by tags from
> others to show up :)

Thanks! :)
Gao Xiang

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> greg k-h
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