This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: fix incorrect fdput() on aio completion to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-fix-incorrect-fdput-on-aio-completion.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 724768a39374d35b70eaeae8dd87048a2ec7ae8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:50:59 +0300 Subject: ovl: fix incorrect fdput() on aio completion From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> commit 724768a39374d35b70eaeae8dd87048a2ec7ae8e upstream. ovl_{read,write}_iter() always call fdput(real) to put one or zero refcounts of the real file, but for aio, whether it was submitted or not, ovl_aio_put() also calls fdput(), which is not balanced. This is only a problem in the less common case when FDPUT_FPUT flag is set. To fix the problem use get_file() to take file refcount and use fput() instead of fdput() in ovl_aio_put(). Fixes: 2406a307ac7d ("ovl: implement async IO routines") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.6 Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/file.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ struct ovl_aio_req { struct kiocb iocb; refcount_t ref; struct kiocb *orig_iocb; - struct fd fd; }; static struct kmem_cache *ovl_aio_request_cachep; @@ -256,7 +255,7 @@ static rwf_t ovl_iocb_to_rwf(int ifl) static inline void ovl_aio_put(struct ovl_aio_req *aio_req) { if (refcount_dec_and_test(&aio_req->ref)) { - fdput(aio_req->fd); + fput(aio_req->iocb.ki_filp); kmem_cache_free(ovl_aio_request_cachep, aio_req); } } @@ -322,10 +321,9 @@ static ssize_t ovl_read_iter(struct kioc if (!aio_req) goto out; - aio_req->fd = real; real.flags = 0; aio_req->orig_iocb = iocb; - kiocb_clone(&aio_req->iocb, iocb, real.file); + kiocb_clone(&aio_req->iocb, iocb, get_file(real.file)); aio_req->iocb.ki_complete = ovl_aio_rw_complete; refcount_set(&aio_req->ref, 2); ret = vfs_iocb_iter_read(real.file, &aio_req->iocb, iter); @@ -394,10 +392,9 @@ static ssize_t ovl_write_iter(struct kio /* Pacify lockdep, same trick as done in aio_write() */ __sb_writers_release(file_inode(real.file)->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); - aio_req->fd = real; real.flags = 0; aio_req->orig_iocb = iocb; - kiocb_clone(&aio_req->iocb, iocb, real.file); + kiocb_clone(&aio_req->iocb, iocb, get_file(real.file)); aio_req->iocb.ki_flags = ifl; aio_req->iocb.ki_complete = ovl_aio_rw_complete; refcount_set(&aio_req->ref, 2); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amir73il@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/ovl-fix-incorrect-fdput-on-aio-completion.patch queue-5.15/ovl-fix-failed-copyup-of-fileattr-on-a-symlink.patch