[Gluster-devel] Test-case "./tests/basic/tier/tier-file-create.t" hung

[Jeff Darcy]

> This is a memory corruption issue which is already reported and there is a
> patch by Pranith in 3.7 [1] waiting to get reviews. Patch [1] will solve the
> issue .

> [1] : http://review.gluster.org/#/c/13574/

That patch seems to be about making and modifying a copy of xattr_req,
instead of modifying the original.  How exactly does that avoid memory
corruption?  Was some code (not that which changed) keeping a pointer
to gfid-req in its original location after that had been freed?