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SubjectRe: [PATCH] aio: fix a user triggered use after free (and fix freeze protection of aio writes)
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 01:24:51PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> How about taking this chunk (i.e. telling lockdep that we are not holding this
> thing) past the iter_op() call, where file_end_write() used to be?

We can't as that would not fix the use after free (at least for the lockdep
case - otherwise the call is a no-op). Once iter_op returns aio_complete
might have dropped our reference to the file, and another thread might
have closed the fd so that the fput from aio_complete was the last one.

This is something that xfstests/323 can reproduce under the right conditions.

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