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 18:33:45 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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 2019/2/20 18:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :)

Thanks! :)
Gao Xiang

> 
> greg k-h
>