linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] aio: move sanity checks and request allocation to io_submit

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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:48:30 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, kgraul@...ux.ibm.com,
        ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, kyeongdon.kim@....com,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, pabeni@...hat.com,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        zhengbin <zhengbin13@...wei.com>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        houtao1@...wei.com, yi.zhang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] aio: move sanity checks and request allocation to
 io_submit_one()

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 07:08:22AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> makes for somewhat cleaner control flow in __io_submit_one()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

I wonder if we should even bother keeping __io_submit_one.  Splitting
that out was prep work from Jens for something that eventually turned
into io_uring.