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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/3] NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir
On 12/01/2010 11:17 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So this is a TOTALLY UNTESTED trivial patch that just adds another
> callback. Does this work? I dunno. But I get the feeling that instead
> of having NFS work around the odd semantics that don't actually match
> what NFS wants, introducing a new callback with much simpler semantics
> would be simpler for everybody, and avoid the need for subtle code.

Surely somebody can have just looked up the page and
gotten a reference count, right before your ->freepage
call is invoked?

CPU A CPU B

look up page
grab refcount
->freepage

use contents of page

Am I overlooking something obvious?

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