Re: [PATCH] BUG in io_destroy (fs/aio.c:1248)

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> So...  Will someone be sending a new patch?

Here's a cheesy patch that simply marks the ioctx as dead before
destroying it.  Though I'd like to simply mark the ioctx as dead until
it actually gets used, I don't know enough about the code to make that
sort of invasive change.

--D

-----------------
Signed-off-by: Darrick Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>

--- linux-2.6.10/fs/aio.c.old	2005-01-24 16:12:46.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.10/fs/aio.c	2005-01-24 16:30:53.000000000 -0800
@@ -1285,6 +1285,10 @@
 		if (!ret)
 			return 0;
 
+		spin_lock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
+		ctx->dead = 1;
+		spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
+
 		io_destroy(ioctx);
 	}