Benjamin LaHaise <b...@kvack.org> writes:

> The aio cleanups and optimizations by kmo that were merged into the 3.10
> tree added a regression for userspace event reaping.  Specifically, the
> reference counts are not decremented if the event is reaped in userspace,
> leading to the application being unable to submit further aio requests.
> This patch applies to 3.12+.  A separate backport is required for 3.10/3.11.
> This issue was uncovered as part of CVE-2014-0206.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <b...@kvack.org>

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com>
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