Commit 724768a39374 ("ovl: fix incorrect fdput() on aio completion") took a refcount on real file before submitting aio, but forgot to avoid clearing FDPUT_FPUT from real.flags stack variable. This can result in a file reference leak. Fixes: 724768a39374 ("ovl: fix incorrect fdput() on aio completion") Reported-by: Gil Lev <contact@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- Miklos, This is a fix for an unfortunate braino merged to 6.6-rc2. I will queue it up for 6.6-rc5. Gil has caught this bug in post mortem review. Thanks for reporting the bug! Amir. fs/overlayfs/file.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/file.c b/fs/overlayfs/file.c index 693971d20280..8be4dc050d1e 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c @@ -341,7 +341,6 @@ static ssize_t ovl_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) if (!aio_req) goto out; - real.flags = 0; aio_req->orig_iocb = iocb; kiocb_clone(&aio_req->iocb, iocb, get_file(real.file)); aio_req->iocb.ki_complete = ovl_aio_rw_complete; @@ -413,7 +412,6 @@ static ssize_t ovl_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) if (!aio_req) goto out; - real.flags = 0; aio_req->orig_iocb = iocb; kiocb_clone(&aio_req->iocb, iocb, get_file(real.file)); aio_req->iocb.ki_flags = ifl; -- 2.34.1