On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 05:23:24PM +0800, Pan Bian wrote: > After calling dput(new_dentry), new_dentry is passed to fsnotify_move. > This may result in a use-after-free bug. This patch moves the put > operation late. > > Fixes: 49d31c2f389a("dentry name snapshots") What does that commit have to do with anything? The broken part is fsnotify_move(new_dir, old_dir, old_dentry->d_name.name, new_is_dir, NULL, new_dentry); and it predates that commit by 3 years - it came from da1ce0670c14 ("vfs: add cross-rename")...