On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:29:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > static void aio_fsync_work(struct work_struct *work) > { > struct fsync_iocb *req = container_of(work, struct fsync_iocb, work); > + struct aio_kiocb *iocb = container_of(req, struct aio_kiocb, fsync); > + struct file *file = req->file; > int ret; > > ret = vfs_fsync(req->file, req->datasync); > - fput(req->file); > - aio_complete(container_of(req, struct aio_kiocb, fsync), ret, 0); > + if (aio_complete(iocb, ret, 0, 0)) > + fput(file); IDGI. 1) can aio_complete() ever return false here? 2) do we ever have aio_kiocb that would not have an associated struct file * that needs to be dropped on successful aio_complete()? AFAICS, rw, fsync and poll variants all have one, and I'm not sure what kind of async IO *could* be done without an opened file.