In __copy_io we know that the newly allocate task_struct does not have an I/O context yet and is not exiting. So just allocate the I/O context struct and install it directly. There is no need to lock the task either as it is just being created. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/blk-ioc.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c index b42fbb82d5c0c..f06d1040442c3 100644 --- a/block/blk-ioc.c +++ b/block/blk-ioc.c @@ -336,7 +336,6 @@ struct io_context *get_task_io_context(struct task_struct *task, int __copy_io(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) { struct io_context *ioc = current->io_context; - struct io_context *new_ioc; /* * Share io context with parent, if CLONE_IO is set @@ -347,12 +346,10 @@ int __copy_io(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks); tsk->io_context = ioc; } else if (ioprio_valid(ioc->ioprio)) { - new_ioc = get_task_io_context(tsk, GFP_KERNEL, NUMA_NO_NODE); - if (unlikely(!new_ioc)) + tsk->io_context = alloc_io_context(GFP_KERNEL, NUMA_NO_NODE); + if (!tsk->io_context) return -ENOMEM; - - new_ioc->ioprio = ioc->ioprio; - put_io_context(new_ioc); + tsk->io_context->ioprio = ioc->ioprio; } return 0; -- 2.30.2