From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org,
"Christian Brauner (Amutable)" <brauner@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] io-wq: order the exit bit against worker creation task work
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:22:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260915-work-coredump-fixes-v1-6-f354ca41780c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915-work-coredump-fixes-v1-0-f354ca41780c@kernel.org>
io_wq_exit_workers() cancels task work for queued worker creation with
task_work_cancel_match(). That has a plain load of task->task_works.
io_queue_worker_create() adds the new entry and tests IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT to
cancel it if the workqueue is already on its way out.
That must be ordered. task_work_add() has a full barrier via cmpxchg().
But io_wq_exit_start() sets the bit with set_bit() which doesn't have
any memory ordering.
So afaict, on weakly ordered architectures the exiting task may load
task_works before the store of the bit is visible. The other side tests
the bit before the store is visible as well. So the entry remains queued
with worker_refs and the exiting task waits on worker_done indefinitely.
If the task still has rings then io_uring_del_tctx_node() provides the
barrier via test_and_set_bit() in io_wq_set_exit_on_idle(). When it
has closed all rings though that barrier is gone.
Add the barrier after the set_bit().
Fixes: 71a85387546e ("io-wq: check for wq exit after adding new worker task_work")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---
io_uring/io-wq.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/io_uring/io-wq.c b/io_uring/io-wq.c
index 2ca223e47d41..2a980e86dd94 100644
--- a/io_uring/io-wq.c
+++ b/io_uring/io-wq.c
@@ -1324,6 +1324,8 @@ static bool io_task_work_match(struct callback_head *cb, void *data)
void io_wq_exit_start(struct io_wq *wq)
{
set_bit(IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT, &wq->state);
+ /* Pairs with task_work_add() in io_queue_worker_create(). */
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
}
static void io_wq_cancel_tw_create(struct io_wq *wq)
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 10:22 [PATCH 0/6] coredump & signals: an impossible affair Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 10:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] coredump: don't switch a dumper that has no files table Christian Brauner
2026-09-16 19:48 ` Chris Mason
2026-09-16 22:10 ` Christian Brauner
2026-09-17 1:51 ` NeilBrown
2026-09-17 8:49 ` user workers as coredumpers [Re: [PATCH 1/6] coredump: don't switch a dumper that has no files] table Christian Brauner
2026-09-18 12:28 ` Christian Brauner
2026-09-18 13:33 ` Christian Brauner
2026-09-20 15:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-09-21 11:20 ` Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 10:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] fork: refuse new threads while a coredump is in progress Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 15:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-09-16 11:30 ` Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 10:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] coredump: hold RCU while releasing parked threads Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 15:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-09-16 11:30 ` Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 10:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] signal: only SIGKILL interrupts a coredumping task Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 10:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] coredump: parse a snapshot of core_pattern Christian Brauner
2026-09-15 10:22 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-09-15 12:01 ` [PATCH 0/6] coredump & signals: an impossible affair Jens Axboe
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