The following patch accidentally removed the code for delivering completions for cancelled reads and writes to user space: "[PATCH 04/33] aio: remove retry-based AIO" (https://lore.kernel.org/all/1363883754-27966-5-git-send-email-koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx/) >From that patch: - if (kiocbIsCancelled(iocb)) { - ret = -EINTR; - aio_complete(iocb, ret, 0); - /* must not access the iocb after this */ - goto out; - } This leads to a leak in user space of a struct iocb. Hence this patch that restores the code that reports to user space that a read or write has been cancelled successfully. Fixes: 41003a7bcfed ("aio: remove retry-based AIO") Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 27 +++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index da18dbcfcb22..28223f511931 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -2165,14 +2165,11 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, compat_aio_context_t, ctx_id, #endif /* sys_io_cancel: - * Attempts to cancel an iocb previously passed to io_submit. If - * the operation is successfully cancelled, the resulting event is - * copied into the memory pointed to by result without being placed - * into the completion queue and 0 is returned. May fail with - * -EFAULT if any of the data structures pointed to are invalid. - * May fail with -EINVAL if aio_context specified by ctx_id is - * invalid. May fail with -EAGAIN if the iocb specified was not - * cancelled. Will fail with -ENOSYS if not implemented. + * Attempts to cancel an iocb previously passed to io_submit(). If the + * operation is successfully cancelled 0 is returned. May fail with + * -EFAULT if any of the data structures pointed to are invalid. May + * fail with -EINVAL if aio_context specified by ctx_id is invalid. Will + * fail with -ENOSYS if not implemented. */ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_cancel, aio_context_t, ctx_id, struct iocb __user *, iocb, struct io_event __user *, result) @@ -2203,14 +2200,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_cancel, aio_context_t, ctx_id, struct iocb __user *, iocb, } spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock); - if (!ret) { - /* - * The result argument is no longer used - the io_event is - * always delivered via the ring buffer. -EINPROGRESS indicates - * cancellation is progress: - */ - ret = -EINPROGRESS; - } + /* + * The result argument is no longer used - the io_event is always + * delivered via the ring buffer. + */ + if (ret == 0 && kiocb->rw.ki_flags & IOCB_AIO_RW) + aio_complete_rw(&kiocb->rw, -EINTR); percpu_ref_put(&ctx->users);