On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     This is an incredibly scary program! It's sending an iocb to aio_read 
>     and then pops the stack and exits.  The act of exiting could very well
>     scribble all over the iocb structure while the I/O is in progress and, 
>     of course, then the program invalidates the stack and exits.

Even if that's the case, it's still a userland program that is able to
panic the system. So, no matter what the program does, it's still a bug in
the way we handle aio.


Andrzej Bialecki

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