From 0b944d3a4bba6b25f43aed530f4fa85c04d162a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 11:42:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] aio: hold an extra file reference over AIO read/write operations Otherwise we might dereference an already freed file and/or inode when aio_complete is called before we return from the read_iter or write_iter method. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/aio.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 1157e13a36d6..0aa71d338c04 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -1460,6 +1460,7 @@ rw_common: return ret; } + get_file(file); if (rw == WRITE) file_start_write(file); @@ -1467,6 +1468,7 @@ rw_common: if (rw == WRITE) file_end_write(file); + fput(file); kfree(iovec); break;