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Oleg Nesterov committed 855ef0dec72
aio: kill the misleading rcu read locks in ioctx_add_table() and kill_ioctx() ioctx_add_table() is the writer, it does not need rcu_read_lock() to protect ->ioctx_table. It relies on mm->ioctx_lock and rcu locks just add the confusion. And it doesn't need rcu_dereference() by the same reason, it must see any updates previously done under the same ->ioctx_lock. We could use rcu_dereference_protected() but the patch uses rcu_dereference_raw(), the function is simple enough. The same for kill_ioctx(), although it does not update the pointer. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>