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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: block completion races
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:55:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C45B06C.5AA45DCD@colorfullife.com> (raw)

> Also, there is this code in ide_do_drive_cmd():
> 
>         if (action == ide_wait) {
>                 wait_for_completion(&wait);     /* wait for it to be serviced */
>                 return rq->errors ? -EIO : 0;   /* return -EIO if errors */
>         }
> 
> Is it safe to use `rq' here?  It has just been recycled in
> end_that_request_last() and we don't own it any more.
>

Yes, this is safe. rq lies on the stack of the caller of
ide_do_drive_cmd() - it can't disappear before we return.

--
	Manfred

             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-16 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-16 16:55 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-01-16 18:50 ` block completion races Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-16  1:50 Andrew Morton
2002-01-16  4:11 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-16  7:09   ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-16  7:07 ` Jens Axboe

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