Re: Apply commit e02ba72aabfade4c9cd6e3263e9b57bf890ad25c

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Hello Jan et al,

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:36:53AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
>   I think commit e02ba72aabfade4c9cd6e3263e9b57bf890ad25c (aio: block
> io_destroy() until all context requests are completed) is a good candidate
> for stable backport (3.12, 3.14 kernel trees) since it fixes possible
> userspace memory corruption. It applies cleanly to 3.12.22 tree (I didn't
> check 3.14 tree).

I agree that it should eventually hit -stable, but it is not an urgent 
issue and should not be applied prematurely.  Please wait for this patch 
to have at least a few weeks of exposure in Linus' tree.  Also note that 
it is not userspace memory corruption so much as an application not waiting 
for I/O to complete as they're supposed to (the app is doing something 
really stupid).

		-ben

> 								Honza
> 
> -- 
> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> SUSE Labs, CR

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