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Tejun Heo
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While fixing refcounting,e34ecee2ae("aio: Fix a trinity splat") incorrectly removed explicit RCU grace period before freeing kioctx. The intention seems to be depending on the internal RCU grace periods of percpu_ref; however, percpu_ref uses a different flavor of RCU, sched-RCU. This can lead to kioctx being freed while RCU read protected dereferences are still in progress. Fix it by updating free_ioctx() to go through call_rcu() explicitly. v2: Comment added to explain double bouncing. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Fixes:e34ecee2ae("aio: Fix a trinity splat") Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
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