After the call to __blkdev_direct_IO the final reference to the file might have been dropped by aio_complete already, and the call to file_accessed might cause a use after free. Instead update the access time before the I/O, similar to how we update the time stamps before writes. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c index ef01bd3..301fb3c 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c @@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_read( return -EINVAL; } + file_accessed(iocb->ki_filp); + /* * Locking is a bit tricky here. If we take an exclusive lock for direct * IO, we effectively serialise all new concurrent read IO to this file @@ -324,7 +326,6 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_read( } xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED); - file_accessed(iocb->ki_filp); return ret; } -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html