diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index d96daeaa807b..cb34aa80c4f8 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -359,8 +359,14 @@ void fuse_release_common(struct file *file, bool isdir)
 	 * Make the release synchronous if this is a fuseblk mount,
 	 * synchronous RELEASE is allowed (and desirable) in this case
 	 * because the server can be trusted not to screw up.
+	 *
+	 * Always use the asynchronous file put because the current thread
+	 * might be the fuse server.  This can happen if a process starts some
+	 * aio and closes the fd before the aio completes.  Since aio takes its
+	 * own ref to the file, the IO completion has to drop the ref, which is
+	 * how the fuse server can end up closing its clients' files.
 	 */
-	fuse_file_put(ra->inode, ff, ff->fm->fc->destroy, isdir);
+	fuse_file_put(ra->inode, ff, false, isdir);
 }
 
 static int fuse_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)