We need to either restore creds properly if we fail on the file assignment, or just do the file assignment first instead. Let's do the latter as it's simpler, should make no difference here for file assignment. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000a7edb305dca75a50@xxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: syzbot+60c52ca98513a8760a91@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 6bf9c47a3989 ("io_uring: defer file assignment") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index ab674a0d269b..4479013854d2 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -7111,13 +7111,14 @@ static int io_issue_sqe(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags) const struct cred *creds = NULL; int ret; + if (unlikely(!io_assign_file(req, issue_flags))) + return -EBADF; + if (unlikely((req->flags & REQ_F_CREDS) && req->creds != current_cred())) creds = override_creds(req->creds); if (!io_op_defs[req->opcode].audit_skip) audit_uring_entry(req->opcode); - if (unlikely(!io_assign_file(req, issue_flags))) - return -EBADF; switch (req->opcode) { case IORING_OP_NOP: -- Jens Axboe