Re: [PATCH -mm 3/4][AIO] - AIO completion signal notification

[Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:14:37 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

[snip]

> Look:
> 
> > +	notify->target = target;
> > +
> > +	if (notify->notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID)) {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * This reference will be dropped in really_put_req() when
> > +		 * we're done with the request.
> > +		 */
> > +		get_task_struct(target);
> 
> If that test fails, we've saved a pointer to the task_struct without having
> taken a refreence on it.
> 

  Aggreed, just wanted to make sure.

  Thanks,

  Sébastien.
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