diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 5f9c802a5d8d34454f2382196ef9d81b43e76bd9..c942c89ca4cda90b94eaf724a2dabd63853bb52e 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -1003,7 +1003,16 @@ static unsigned long __fget_light(unsigned int fd, fmode_t mask)
 	struct files_struct *files = current->files;
 	struct file *file;
 
-	if (atomic_read(&files->count) == 1) {
+	/*
+	 * If another thread is concurrently calling close_fd() followed
+	 * by put_files_struct(), we must not observe the old table
+	 * entry combined with the new refcount - otherwise we could
+	 * return a file that is concurrently being freed.
+	 *
+	 * atomic_read_acquire() pairs with atomic_dec_and_test() in
+	 * put_files_struct().
+	 */
+	if (atomic_read_acquire(&files->count) == 1) {
 		file = files_lookup_fd_raw(files, fd);
 		if (!file || unlikely(file->f_mode & mask))
 			return 0;
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 578c2110df0223fbdb952e3e002de5feaa2d1446..9155ecb547ce62464dd8b304e63ed73b7cf2b73e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3591,6 +3591,7 @@ static int vfs_tmpfile(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 	struct inode *dir = d_inode(parentpath->dentry);
 	struct inode *inode;
 	int error;
+	int open_flag = file->f_flags;
 
 	/* we want directory to be writable */
 	error = inode_permission(mnt_userns, dir, MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC);
@@ -3613,7 +3614,7 @@ static int vfs_tmpfile(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 	inode = file_inode(file);
-	if (!(file->f_flags & O_EXCL)) {
+	if (!(open_flag & O_EXCL)) {
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 		inode->i_state |= I_LINKABLE;
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);