Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in __fput (3)

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:35:47AM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:

> Any light on how a9ed4a6560b8 ends up with __fput called twice is
> highly appreciated.

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index e0decff22ae2..8107e06d7f6f 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1995,9 +1995,9 @@ static int ep_loop_check_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int call_nests)
 			 * during ep_insert().
 			 */
 			if (list_empty(&epi->ffd.file->f_tfile_llink)) {
-				get_file(epi->ffd.file);
-				list_add(&epi->ffd.file->f_tfile_llink,
-					 &tfile_check_list);
+				if (get_file_rcu(epi->ffd.file))
+					list_add(&epi->ffd.file->f_tfile_llink,
+						 &tfile_check_list);
 			}
 		}
 	}