David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:

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Is ext4_dio_read_iter() broken?  It calls:

	file_accessed(iocb->ki_filp);

at the end of the function - but surely iocb should be expected to have been
freed when iocb->ki_complete() was called?

I think it's actually worse than that.  You also can't call
inode_unlock_shared(inode) because you no longer own a ref on the inode since
->ki_complete() is expected to call fput() on iocb->ki_filp.

Yes, you own a shared lock on it, but unless somewhere along the
fput-dput-iput chain the inode lock is taken exclusively, the inode can be
freed whilst you're still holding the lock.

Oh - and ext4_dax_read_iter() is also similarly broken.

And xfs_file_dio_aio_read() appears to be broken as it touches the inode after
calling iomap_dio_rw() to unlock it.

Seems btrfs_file_write_iter() is also broken:

	if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT) {
		num_written = __btrfs_direct_write(iocb, from);
	} else {
		num_written = btrfs_buffered_write(iocb, from);
		if (num_written > 0)
			iocb->ki_pos = pos + num_written;
		if (clean_page)
			pagecache_isize_extended(inode, oldsize,
						i_size_read(inode));
	}

	inode_unlock(inode);

But if __btrfs_direct_write() returned -EIOCBQUEUED then inode may have been
deallocated by the point it's calling inode_unlock().  Holding the lock is not
a preventative measure that I can see.

David