linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/28] aio: implement IOCB_CMD

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Message-ID: <20180322181653.GJ30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:16:53 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/28] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_POLL

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 06:24:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> -static void aio_complete(struct aio_kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2)
> +static bool aio_complete(struct aio_kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2,
> +		unsigned complete_flags)

Looks like all callers are following that with "if returned true,
fput(something)".  Does it really make any sense to keep that struct
file * in different fields?

Wait a sec...  What ordering do we want for
	* call(s) of ->ki_complete
	* call (if any) of ->ki_cancel
	* dropping reference to struct file
and what are the expected call chains for all of those?