The patch titled
AIO: comment aio_setup_sigevent() explaining why there is no task ref leak
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
aio-completion-signal-notification-fix.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged
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Subject: AIO: comment aio_setup_sigevent() explaining why there is no task ref leak
From: Sebastien Dugueé <sebastien.dugue@xxxxxxxx>
Add a comment explaining why there is no task ref leak in
aio_setup_sigevent().
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugueé <sebastien.dugue@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/aio.c~aio-completion-signal-notification-fix fs/aio.c
--- a/fs/aio.c~aio-completion-signal-notification-fix
+++ a/fs/aio.c
@@ -986,6 +986,11 @@ static long aio_setup_sigevent(struct ai
*/
notify->sigq = sigqueue_alloc();
+ /*
+ * The task ref will be released in really_put_req()
+ * when we dispose of the iocb later on in the submission
+ * path.
+ */
if (unlikely(!notify->sigq))
return -EAGAIN;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sebastien.dugue@xxxxxxxx are
aio-completion-signal-notification-fix.patch
add-listio-syscall-support.patch
add-listio-syscall-support-fix.patch
add-listio-syscall-support-fix-2.patch
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