After io_identity_cow() copies an work.identity it wants to copy creds to the new just allocated id, not the old one. Otherwise it's akin to req->work.identity->creds = req->work.identity->creds. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index f707caed9f79..201e5354b07b 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ static bool io_identity_cow(struct io_kiocb *req) */ io_init_identity(id); if (creds) - req->work.identity->creds = creds; + id->creds = creds; /* add one for this request */ refcount_inc(&id->count); -- 2.24.0