FAILED: patch "[PATCH] io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 937d38dcacd675dc0572d6c9b6743960df3128ed
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026102833-buffing-shone-0fb5@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 937d38dcacd675dc0572d6c9b6743960df3128ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juanlu Herrero <juanlu@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:37:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping
 ownership

If a wakeup sets IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG between the owning task consuming
the existing instance of IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG and the loop check
of io_poll_check_events(), then we stall on processing the request
until an unrelated wakeup comes along.

Using atomic_cmpxchg instead of atomic_sub_return to guarantee both the
count v and poll_refs are 0 and no wake-ups are missed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a26a35e9019f ("io_uring: make poll refs more robust")
Signed-off-by: Juanlu Herrero <juanlu@fastmail.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Suggested-by: Anand Natarajan <anand@meta.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261013-pu-cmpxchg-v1-1-4ddc10fd8a03@fastmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/io_uring/poll.c b/io_uring/poll.c
index 7dcb904e8fc3..704a9b6102a9 100644
--- a/io_uring/poll.c
+++ b/io_uring/poll.c
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ static int io_poll_check_events(struct io_kiocb *req, io_tw_token_t tw)
 		 * Release all references, retry if someone tried to restart
 		 * task_work while we were executing it.
 		 */
-	} while (atomic_sub_return(v, &req->poll_refs) & IO_POLL_REF_MASK);
+		v &= IO_POLL_REF_MASK;
+	} while (atomic_cmpxchg(&req->poll_refs, v, 0) != v);
 
 	io_napi_add(req);
 	return IOU_POLL_NO_ACTION;