From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
To: Prateek <kprateek283@gmail.com>, io-uring@vger.kernel.org
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, Prateek <kprateek283@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] src/queue: don't swallow -ETIME when SQEs were submitted
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:15:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fr1l4kf1.fsf@mailhost.krisman.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260712221049.534729-1-kprateek283@gmail.com>
Prateek <kprateek283@gmail.com> writes:
> If _io_uring_get_cqe() submits SQEs and then times out waiting for
> completions, it returns the submit count instead of -ETIME:
>
> 1. The first enter submits the SQEs; because submit > 0 the kernel
> returns the submit count, not -ETIME, and it is stored in err.
> 2. On the next iteration the has_ts shortcut wants to report -ETIME,
> but the 'if (!err)' guard sees the non-zero submit count and keeps
> it, so -ETIME is dropped.
>
> That contradicts io_uring_submit_and_wait_timeout(3) and
> io_uring_wait_cqes(3), which document -ETIME on timeout.
>
> At these two sites (lines 113 and 118) err is only ever 0 or a positive
> submit count. A negative error from __io_uring_peek_cqe() or a prior
> enter breaks out of the loop before reaching here. So the change is
> functionally equivalent to dropping the err condition entirely; we change
> '!err' to 'err >= 0' so -ETIME is successfully synthesized whenever no
> CQE was seen.
>
> The guards were added in 2f61e849 ("src/queue: don't wait twice if
> looping in _io_uring_get_cqe()") to carry the submit count across
> iterations for the partial-completion case (got some CQEs, no error);
> that case still returns the count because both sites remain guarded by
> !cqe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prateek <kprateek283@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
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Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-12 22:10 [PATCH 1/2] src/queue: don't swallow -ETIME when SQEs were submitted Prateek
2026-07-12 22:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] test/timeout-swallow: verify -ETIME is not swallowed Prateek
2026-07-14 16:20 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2026-07-14 16:15 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi [this message]
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