From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:28:01 +0000 (+0100) Subject: fs: Fix possible use-after-free with AIO X-Git-Tag: v3.2.40~59 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53edcd239765c93597d079ac98858916d1f724f4;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git fs: Fix possible use-after-free with AIO commit 54c807e71d5ac59dee56c685f2b66e27cd54c475 upstream. 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. CC: Christoph Hellwig CC: Jens Axboe CC: Jeff Moyer Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c index d740ab67ff6e1..ac401d229f9be 100644 --- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -304,9 +304,9 @@ static ssize_t dio_complete(struct dio *dio, loff_t offset, ssize_t ret, bool is 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;