Re: [PATCH] netfs: Fix AIO error handling when doing write-through

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, 21 May 2024 14:36:27 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> If an error occurs whilst we're doing an AIO write in write-through mode,
> we may end up calling ->ki_complete() *and* returning an error from
> ->write_iter().  This can result in either a UAF (the ->ki_complete() func
> pointer may get overwritten, for example) or a refcount underflow in
> io_submit() as ->ki_complete is called twice.
> 
> Fix this by making netfs_end_writethrough() - and thus
> netfs_perform_write() - unconditionally return -EIOCBQUEUED if we're doing
> an AIO write and wait for completion if we're not.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] netfs: Fix AIO error handling when doing write-through
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/eb5239732070