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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.4.21-pre7 ide request races
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
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> How would that solve the problem? The request could be gone even before
> end_that_request_last() is run, that is the issue.

In that case I didn't understand your description of the bug even the tiniest
little bit.

That request is sitting in the kernel stack of some process which is sleeping
in wait_for_completion(). Hence it is safe memory until someone runs
complete() against the completion struct.
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