linux-kernel - RE: get_file() unsafe under epoll (was Re: [syzbot] [fs?] [io-uring?] general protection fault in __ep

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Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 08:47:12 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Stefan Metzmacher
	<metze@...ba.org>
CC: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"Jens Axboe" <axboe@...nel.dk>, Bui Quang Minh <minhquangbui99@...il.com>,
	"Christian Brauner" <brauner@...nel.org>, syzbot
	<syzbot+045b454ab35fd82a35fb@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
	"io-uring@...r.kernel.org" <io-uring@...r.kernel.org>, "jack@...e.cz"
	<jack@...e.cz>, "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com"
	<syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>, Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
	Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
	"linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org>, "Laura
 Abbott" <laura@...bott.name>
Subject: RE: get_file() unsafe under epoll (was Re: [syzbot] [fs?] [io-uring?]
 general protection fault in __ep_remove)

From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 06 May 2024 19:18
...
> Which is why I applied the minimal patch for just "refcount over
> vfs_poll()", and am just mentioning my suggestion in the hope that
> some eager beaver would like to see how painful it would do to make
> the bigger surgery...

I wonder if I can work out how it (doesn't) currently work...

	David

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