Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix possible use after free with AIO

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writes:

>   Hi,
>
>   when simplifying ext4 IO completion code I realized that the only 
> thing pinning inode while AIO is running is file reference from kiocb. 
> Thus once aio_complete() is called, inode can be freed. So calling
> inode_dio_complete() after aio_complete() is possibly modifying
> already freed inode (although practically the race window is tiny).
>
> This patch series fixes all the problematic sites. Patches are 
> completely independent so each of them can go through the respective 
> maintainer. 

for the series:

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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