[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xfs: Fix possible use-after-free with AIO

[Ben Myers]

Hi Jan,

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:27:59AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Running AIO is pinning inode in memory using file reference. Once AIO
> is completed using aio_complete(), file reference is put and inode can
> be freed from memory. So we have to be sure that calling aio_complete()
> is the last thing we do with the inode.
> 
> CC: xfs at oss.sgi.com
> CC: Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>
> CC: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>
> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>

We picked this up in the xfs tree.  Sorry to keep you hanging.

Regards,
	Ben