"Darrick J. Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > So... Will someone be sending a new patch? > > Here's a cheesy patch that simply marks the ioctx as dead before > destroying it.
super-cheesy, given that `ctx' is an unsigned long. > + spin_lock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock); > + ctx->dead = 1; > + spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock); > + Even with this fixed up, the locking looks very odd. Needs more work, please. Or we just run with the original patch which I assume was tested. It's a rare error path and performance won't matter. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
