[PATCH 7.3.y 05/16] io_uring/net: don't retry a non-blocking connect() that fails with -EAGAIN

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

From: Daan De Meyer <daan@amutable.com>

Commit 71537ed811107c514c0342e98902d489d6d2b7cd upstream.

IORING_OP_CONNECT on an O_NONBLOCK AF_UNIX stream socket retries a
connect that fails with -EAGAIN because the listener's backlog is full.
Polling the client socket doesn't help: an unconnected stream socket
reports EPOLLOUT and EPOLLHUP right away, before the backlog drains. So
io_uring retries the connect until the apoll retry limit is hit, then
punts the request to io-wq. With a full backlog, io_connect() runs 128
times in the submitting task and once more in a new io-wq worker. That
worker stays in the task's thread group, so a later
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) fails with -EINVAL.

None of this changes the result. __sys_connect_file() adds the socket's
own O_NONBLOCK to every attempt, so the attempt from io-wq fails with
-EAGAIN as well. That -EAGAIN becomes the CQE result, and connect(2)
returns the same -EAGAIN.

Let's complete the request with -EAGAIN right away when the socket has
O_NONBLOCK set, like connect(2) does. io_accept() already completes
-EAGAIN this way for IORING_ACCEPT_DONTWAIT. -EINPROGRESS still waits
for the connection to complete. A blocking socket still ends up in
io-wq, where the connect sleeps until the listener accepts.

Fixes: f8e85cf255ad ("io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_CONNECT")
Signed-off-by: Daan De Meyer <daan@amutable.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261027-b4-io-uring-connect-eagain-v1-1-f4e3aaaa49ee@amutable.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
 io_uring/net.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/io_uring/net.c b/io_uring/net.c
index ef455f1a47eb..b62f21df42f2 100644
--- a/io_uring/net.c
+++ b/io_uring/net.c
@@ -1878,6 +1878,17 @@ int io_connect(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags)
 			if (connect->seen_econnaborted)
 				goto out;
 			connect->seen_econnaborted = true;
+		} else if (req->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
+			/*
+			 * __sys_connect_file() adds O_NONBLOCK from the socket
+			 * to every attempt, so a retry from io-wq fails with
+			 * -EAGAIN as well. A poll on the socket doesn't wait
+			 * until a retry can succeed. For example, an AF_UNIX
+			 * client reports EPOLLOUT right away while the
+			 * listener's backlog is full. Complete the request
+			 * with -EAGAIN, like connect(2) does.
+			 */
+			goto out;
 		}
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
-- 
2.56.0