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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-08-12 09:12:30 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-12 08:21:39 -0700
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NFS: Fix an O_DIRECT Oops...
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment() causes an Oops. We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in those cases. Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release(). Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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