Re: [PATCH -mm][AIO] Fix AIO completion signal notification possible ref leak

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On 02/05, S?bastien Dugu? wrote:
> 
>   Make sure we only accept valid sigev_notify values in aio_setup_sigevent(),
> namely SIGEV_NONE, SIGEV_THREAD_ID or SIGEV_SIGNAL.

I think this is correct, but I have another concern (most probably I just
confused looking at non-applied patch), could you re-check?

> @@ -959,6 +959,10 @@ static long aio_setup_sigevent(struct ai
>  	if (event.sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE)
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	if (event.sigev_notify != SIGEV_SIGNAL &&
> +	    event.sigev_notify != SIGEV_THREAD_ID)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	notify->notify = event.sigev_notify;
>  	notify->signo = event.sigev_signo;
>  	notify->value = event.sigev_value;

Ok. But what if sigevent_find_task() fails after that? Doesn't this mean
that really_put_req() will do put_task_struct(NULL) ?

Oleg.

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