We may fail to pin one of the marks in fsnotify_prepare_user_wait() when dropping the srcu read lock, resulting in use after free at the next iteration. Solution is to store both marks in iter_info instead of just the one we'll be sending the event for. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 9385a84d7e1f ("fsnotify: Pass fsnotify_iter_info into handle_event handler") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.12 --- fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c index 0c4583b61717..48ec61f4c4d5 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c @@ -336,6 +336,9 @@ int fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, const void *data, int data_is, vfsmount_group = vfsmount_mark->group; } + iter_info.inode_mark = inode_mark; + iter_info.vfsmount_mark = vfsmount_mark; + if (inode_group && vfsmount_group) { int cmp = fsnotify_compare_groups(inode_group, vfsmount_group); @@ -348,9 +351,6 @@ int fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, const void *data, int data_is, } } - iter_info.inode_mark = inode_mark; - iter_info.vfsmount_mark = vfsmount_mark; - ret = send_to_group(to_tell, inode_mark, vfsmount_mark, mask, data, data_is, cookie, file_name, &iter_info); -- 2.5.5