| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [ 42/77] fs: Fix possible use-after-free with AIO | Date | Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:44:27 -0800 |
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3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
commit 54c807e71d5ac59dee56c685f2b66e27cd54c475 upstream.
Running AIO is pinning inode in memory using file reference. Once AIO is completed using aio_complete(), file reference is put and inode can be freed from memory. So we have to be sure that calling aio_complete() is the last thing we do with the inode.
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- fs/direct-io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ static ssize_t dio_complete(struct dio * dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, transferred, dio->private, ret, is_async); } else { + inode_dio_done(dio->inode); if (is_async) aio_complete(dio->iocb, ret, 0); - inode_dio_done(dio->inode); } return ret;
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