Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 09/19] io_uring: assign non-fixed early for async work

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue May 10 2022 - 11:51:50 EST


On 5/10/22 9:44 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit a196c78b5443fc61af2c0490213b9d125482cbd1 ]
>
> We defer file assignment to ensure that fixed files work with links
> between a direct accept/open and the links that follow it. But this has
> the side effect that normal file assignment is then not complete by the
> time that request submission has been done.
>
> For deferred execution, if the file is a regular file, assign it when
> we do the async prep anyway.

This one should only go into 5.17-stable, not anything earlier.

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Jens Axboe