Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > at the end of the function - but surely iocb should be expected to have > > > been freed when iocb->ki_complete() was called? > > The iocb is refcounted and only completed when the refcount hits zero, > and an extra reference is held until the submission has completed. > Take a look at iocb_put(). Ah... This is in struct aio_kiocb and not struct kiocb - that's why I missed it. Thanks. David