This accidentally returns the wrong variable. The "req->ki_eventfd" pointer is NULL so this return success. Fixes: 7316b49c2a11 ("aio: move sanity checks and request allocation to io_submit_one()") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index a4cc2a1cccb7..7ccecaab487a 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -1794,7 +1794,7 @@ static int __io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, const struct iocb *iocb, */ eventfd = eventfd_ctx_fdget(iocb->aio_resfd); if (IS_ERR(eventfd)) - return PTR_ERR(req->ki_eventfd); + return PTR_ERR(eventfd); req->ki_eventfd = eventfd; } -- 2.17.1