linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: remove rcu_read_lock() in erofs_try_to_free_cached

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Date:   Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:20:26 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, weidu.du@...wei.com,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>, Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: remove rcu_read_lock() in
 erofs_try_to_free_cached_page

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:38:53AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Could you consider take some time on these two patches for linux-5.1-rc1?
>  1) staging: erofs: fix race of initializing xattrs of a inode at the same time
>  2) staging: erofs: remove rcu_read_lock() in erofs_try_to_free_cached_page
> 
> It will be of great help, especially patch 1 (it could cause potential memleak
> in the race condition without it).

Ok, I'll queue them up now, I was waiting for reviewed-by tags from
others to show up :)

greg k-h