On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The current kiocb_set_cancel_fn implementation assumes the kiocb is > embedded into an aio_kiocb, which is fundamentally unsafe as it might > have been submitted by non-aio callers. Instead add a cancel_kiocb > file operation that replaced the ki_cancel function pointer set by > kiocb_set_cancel_fn, and only adds iocbs to the active list when > the read/write_iter methods return -EIOCBQUEUED and the file has > a cancel_kiocb method. > @@ -1440,6 +1423,16 @@ static inline ssize_t aio_rw_ret(struct kiocb *req, ssize_t ret) > { > switch (ret) { > case -EIOCBQUEUED: > + if (req->ki_filp->f_op->cancel_kiocb) { ... and by that point req might've been already freed by IO completion on another CPU. > + struct aio_kiocb *iocb = > + container_of(req, struct aio_kiocb, rw); > + struct kioctx *ctx = iocb->ki_ctx; > + unsigned long flags; > + > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->ctx_lock, flags); > + list_add_tail(&iocb->ki_list, &ctx->active_reqs);