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: v3.12-rc1~1335^2~33 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54c807e71d5ac59dee56c685f2b66e27cd54c475;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git fs: 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. CC: Christoph Hellwig CC: Jens Axboe CC: Jeff Moyer CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c index cf5b44b..f853263 100644 --- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ 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;