Commit 7c0990c7 authored Nov 19, 2008 by Nikanth Karthikesan Committed by Jens Axboe Dec 29, 2008

Do not free io context when taking recursive faults in do_exit



When taking recursive faults in do_exit, if the io_context is not null,
exit_io_context() is being called. But it might decrement the refcount
more than once. It is better to leave this task alone.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

parent d194139c

kernel/exit.c

+0 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1037,8 +1037,6 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
		* task into the wait for ever nirwana as well.
		*/
		tsk->flags \|= PF_EXITPIDONE;
		if (tsk->io_context)
		exit_io_context();
		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
		schedule();
		}

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