Re: [PATCH 2/2] fuse: wait for aborted connection before releasing last fuse_dev

From: Pavel Begunkov

Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 05:12:28 EST


On 5/17/26 16:00, Bernd Schubert wrote:
On 5/17/26 14:59, Berkant Koc wrote:
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From: Berkant Koc <me@xxxxxxxxxx>

fuse_dev_release() on the last fuse_dev of a connection calls
fuse_abort_conn(fc) and then immediately fuse_conn_put(fc). For io-uring
backed connections fuse_abort_conn() reaches fuse_uring_abort(), which
runs fuse_uring_teardown_all_queues() synchronously once and then
schedules ring->async_teardown_work to run after
FUSE_URING_TEARDOWN_INTERVAL (HZ/20). If the synchronous pass left
queue_refs > 0 the work owns further accesses to ring->queues[*]->
ent_avail_queue and ent_in_userspace entries.

Meanwhile fuse_conn_put() can drop the last reference and arm
delayed_release() via call_rcu(). After the RCU grace period
delayed_release() calls fuse_uring_destruct(), which kfree()s the ring
entries on each queue->ent_released list. The previously scheduled
async_teardown_work then runs and walks per-queue lists that contain
freed entries, producing a slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN at
fuse_uring_teardown_all_queues+0xee reading ent->list.next from a
freed kmalloc-192 region.

fuse_wait_aborted() already exists for this purpose: it waits on
fc->blocked_waitq for num_waiting to drain and then calls
fuse_uring_wait_stopped_queues(), which waits for ring->queue_refs to
reach zero. Call it between fuse_abort_conn() and fuse_conn_put() on
the last-device path so the io-uring teardown work has fully drained
before the connection can be torn down.

Fixes: c090c8abae4b ("fuse: Add io-uring sqe commit and fetch support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.14+
Tested-by: Berkant Koc <me@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Berkant Koc <me@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c
index 5dda7080f4a9..7d9c06654a98 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -2566,6 +2566,7 @@ int fuse_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (last) {
WARN_ON(fc->iq.fasync != NULL);
fuse_abort_conn(fc);
+ fuse_wait_aborted(fc);
}
fuse_conn_put(fc);
}

I might be wrong, but I don't think it is possible, Maybe Pavel or Jens
could help (added to CC). Basically as long as
fuse_uring_async_stop_queues() runs we do not have completed all
io-uring commands via io_uring_cmd_done() and as long as we do not have
completed these io-uring commands.

If I understand the question right, yes, fuse io_uring cmd requests hold
a reference to the fuse file, so until you complete them the file will
not get released.

--
Pavel Begunkov