On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 07:51:17PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > 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")... Thank you for pointing out my mistake! I will correct it and resubmit the patch! Best regards, Pan