Re: [PATCH RFC v7 13/16] io_uring/cmd: let cmds to know about dying task

Pavel Begunkov
2024-12-03T12:14:10Z

On 11/27/24 13:40, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
>
> When the taks that submitted a request is dying, a task work for that
> request might get run by a kernel thread or even worse by a half
> dismantled task. We can't just cancel the task work without running the
> callback as the cmd might need to do some clean up, so pass a flag
> instead. If set, it's not safe to access any task resources and the
> callback is expected to cancel the cmd ASAP.

It was merged through btrfs tree, so when you rebase patches onto
something branching off v6.13-rc1 it should already be there.

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Pavel Begunkov