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Message-ID: <20151119221447.GB4885@mtj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:14:47 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ceph Development <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: request_queue use-after-free - inode_detach_wb()

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:56:43PM +0100, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> Detaching the inode earlier is what I suggested in the first email, but
> I didn't know if this kind of special casing was OK.  I'll try it out.

Yeah, I was confused.  Sorry about that.  On the surface, it looks
like a special case but everything around bdev is special case anyway
and looking at the underlying lifetime rules, I think this is the
right thing to do.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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