The patch titled Subject: fs/direct-io.c: fix possible use-after-free with AIO has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-direct-ioc-fix-possible-use-after-free-with-aio.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Subject: fs/direct-io.c: fix possible use-after-free with AIO Running AIO is pinning inode in memory using file reference. Once AIO is completed using aio_complete(), file reference is put and inode can be freed from memory. So we have to be sure that calling aio_complete() is the last thing we do with the inode. Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/direct-io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/direct-io.c~fs-direct-ioc-fix-possible-use-after-free-with-aio fs/direct-io.c --- a/fs/direct-io.c~fs-direct-ioc-fix-possible-use-after-free-with-aio +++ a/fs/direct-io.c @@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ static ssize_t dio_complete(struct dio * dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, transferred, dio->private, ret, is_async); } else { + inode_dio_done(dio->inode); if (is_async) aio_complete(dio->iocb, ret, 0); - inode_dio_done(dio->inode); } return ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch fs-change-return-values-from-eacces-to-eperm.patch bdi-allow-block-devices-to-say-that-they-require-stable-page-writes.patch mm-only-enforce-stable-page-writes-if-the-backing-device-requires-it.patch 9pfs-fix-filesystem-to-wait-for-stable-page-writeback.patch block-optionally-snapshot-page-contents-to-provide-stable-pages-during-write.patch ocfs2-wait-for-page-writeback-to-provide-stable-pages.patch ubifs-wait-for-page-writeback-to-provide-stable-pages.patch hfsplus-add-osx-prefix-for-handling-namespace-of-mac-os-x-extended-attributes.patch hfsplus-add-on-disk-layout-declarations-related-to-attributes-tree.patch hfsplus-add-functionality-of-manipulating-by-records-in-attributes-tree.patch hfsplus-rework-functionality-of-getting-setting-and-deleting-of-extended-attributes.patch hfsplus-add-support-of-manipulation-by-attributes-file.patch ext4-fix-possible-use-after-free-with-aio.patch ocfs2-fix-possible-use-after-free-with-aio.patch fs-direct-ioc-fix-possible-use-after-free-with-aio.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html