From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:53:02 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ext4: fix ext4_end_io_dio() racing against fsync() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5a7e97039a80fae673ccc115ce595d5b88fb4ee;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git ext4: fix ext4_end_io_dio() racing against fsync() We need to make sure iocb->private is cleared *before* we put the io_end structure on i_completed_io_list. Otherwise fsync() could potentially run on another CPU and free the iocb structure out from under us. Reported-by: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@kernel.org --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 848f436df29f..d2c86633811f 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2781,10 +2781,11 @@ static void ext4_end_io_dio(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset, iocb->private, io_end->inode->i_ino, iocb, offset, size); + iocb->private = NULL; + /* if not aio dio with unwritten extents, just free io and return */ if (!(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) { ext4_free_io_end(io_end); - iocb->private = NULL; out: if (is_async) aio_complete(iocb, ret, 0); @@ -2807,7 +2808,6 @@ out: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei->i_completed_io_lock, flags); /* queue the work to convert unwritten extents to written */ - iocb->private = NULL; queue_work(wq, &io_end->work); /* XXX: probably should move into the real I/O completion handler */