Re: [PATCH] aio: fix a user triggered use after free (and fix freeze protection of aio writes)

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On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 09:44:29AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> -		if (rw == WRITE)
> +		if (rw == WRITE) {
>  			file_start_write(file);
> +			req->ki_flags |= IOCB_WRITE;
> +		}

> +		if (rw == WRITE) {
> +			/*
> +			 * We release freeze protection in aio_complete(). Fool
> +			 * lockdep by telling it the lock got released so that
> +			 * it doesn't complain about held lock when we return
> +			 * to userspace.
> +			 */
> +			__sb_writers_release(file_inode(file)->i_sb,
> +					SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
> +		}

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?

As it is, you risk hiding the lock dependencies the current mainline would've
caught.  Other than that I see no problems with the patch...
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