The patch below does not apply to the 3.16-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 6098b45b32e6baeacc04790773ced9340601d511 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 17:45:44 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] aio: block exit_aio() until all context requests are completed It seems that exit_aio() also needs to wait for all iocbs to complete (like io_destroy), but we missed the wait step in current implemention, so fix it in the same way as we did in io_destroy. Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 5f2e9c6c328e..733750096b71 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -793,6 +793,8 @@ void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm) for (i = 0; i < table->nr; ++i) { struct kioctx *ctx = table->table[i]; + struct completion requests_done = + COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(requests_done); if (!ctx) continue; @@ -804,7 +806,10 @@ void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm) * that it needs to unmap the area, just set it to 0. */ ctx->mmap_size = 0; - kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL); + kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, &requests_done); + + /* Wait until all IO for the context are done. */ + wait_for_completion(&requests_done); } RCU_INIT_POINTER(mm->ioctx_table, NULL); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html