On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 8:42 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/2/20 12:22 PM, Jann Horn wrote: > > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:19 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> We just need this ported to stable once it goes into 5.8-rc: > >> > >> https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=for-5.8/io_uring&id=904fbcb115c85090484dfdffaf7f461d96fe8e53 > > > > How does that work? Who guarantees that the close operation can't drop > > the refcount of the uring instance to zero before reaching the fdput() > > in io_uring_enter? > > Because io_uring_enter() holds a reference to it as well? Which reference do you mean? fdget() doesn't take a reference if the calling process is single-threaded, you'd have to use fget() for that.