We observed panic: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:0000000000000028 [skip] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 737 Comm: a.out Not tainted 5.14.0+ #58 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:vfs_fadvise+0x1e/0x80 [skip] Call Trace: ? tctx_task_work+0x111/0x2a0 io_issue_sqe+0x524/0x1b90 This is caused by io_wq_submit_work() calling io_issue_sqe() on a failed fadvise request, and the io_init_req() return error before initialize the file for it, lead into the panic when vfs_fadvise() try to access 'req->file'. This patch add the missing check & handle for failed request before calling io_issue_sqe(). Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 6f35b12..bfec7bf 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -2214,7 +2214,8 @@ static void io_req_task_submit(struct io_kiocb *req, bool *locked) io_tw_lock(ctx, locked); /* req->task == current here, checking PF_EXITING is safe */ - if (likely(!(req->task->flags & PF_EXITING))) + if (likely(!(req->task->flags & PF_EXITING) && + !(req->flags & REQ_F_FAIL))) __io_queue_sqe(req); else io_req_complete_failed(req, -EFAULT); @@ -6704,7 +6705,10 @@ static void io_wq_submit_work(struct io_wq_work *work) if (!ret) { do { - ret = io_issue_sqe(req, 0); + if (likely(!(req->flags & REQ_F_FAIL))) + ret = io_issue_sqe(req, 0); + else + io_req_complete_failed(req, -EFAULT); /* * We can get EAGAIN for polled IO even though we're * forcing a sync submission from here, since we can't -- 1.8.3.1