On Mon, Apr 14 2003, Mike Anderson wrote:
> Jens Axboe [axboe@suse.de] wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > How would that solve the problem? The request could be gone even before
> > > > end_that_request_last() is run, that is the issue.
> > >
> > > In that case I didn't understand your description of the bug even the tiniest
> > > little bit.
> > >
> > > That request is sitting in the kernel stack of some process which is sleeping
> > > in wait_for_completion(). Hence it is safe memory until someone runs
> > > complete() against the completion struct.
> >
> > Sorry you are right, that should fix the problem as well! Your fix is
> > probably the better one for 2.4, less intrusive. I'll kill the stack
> > requests in 2.5 then.
>
> In 2.5 will you include the 2.4 end_that_request_last fix proposed in
> this thread along with removal of requests on the stack?
Yes of course. One is a good cleanup, the other prevents similar
problems from other drivers.
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