There is a potential race/timing issue while aborting the requests on processing list between fuse_dev_release() and fuse_abort_conn(). This is resulting into below warnings and can even result into UAF issues. [22809.190255][T31644] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. [22809.190266][T31644] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 31644 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x110/0x158 ... [22809.190567][T31644] Call trace: [22809.190567][T31644] refcount_warn_saturate+0x110/0x158 [22809.190569][T31644] fuse_file_put+0xfc/0x104 [22809.190575][T31644] fuse_readpages_end+0x210/0x29c [22809.190579][T31644] fuse_request_end+0x17c/0x200 [22809.190580][T31644] fuse_dev_release+0xe0/0x1e4 [22809.190582][T31644] __fput+0xfc/0x294 [22809.190588][T31644] ____fput+0x18/0x2c [22809.190590][T31644] task_work_run+0xd8/0x104 [22809.190599][T31644] do_exit+0x2a8/0xa5c [22809.190605][T31644] do_group_exit+0x78/0xa4 [22809.190608][T31644] get_signal+0x778/0x8a8 [22809.190614][T31644] do_notify_resume+0x134/0x340 [22809.190617][T31644] el0_svc+0x68/0xc4 [22809.190623][T31644] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x8c/0xfc [22809.190626][T31644] el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 Fix this by aborting the requests in fuse_dev_release() under fpq spin lock. Signed-off-by: Pradeep P V K <quic_pragalla@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/dev.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c index 1a8f82f478cb..bbc33a97ab7c 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/dev.c +++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c @@ -2208,9 +2208,8 @@ int fuse_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) WARN_ON(!list_empty(&fpq->io)); for (i = 0; i < FUSE_PQ_HASH_SIZE; i++) list_splice_init(&fpq->processing[i], &to_end); - spin_unlock(&fpq->lock); - end_requests(&to_end); + spin_unlock(&fpq->lock); /* Are we the last open device? */ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&fc->dev_count)) { -- 2.17.1