Re: [patch] fs: aio fix rcu lookup

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Wed Jan 19 2011 - 14:14:19 EST


Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writes:

> But there's the second race I describe making it possible
> for new IO to be created after io_destroy() has waited for all IO to
> finish...

Can't that be solved by introducing memory barriers around the accesses
to ->dead?

Cheers,
Jeff
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