[PATCH 5.15 03/69] io_uring/io-wq: fix worker accounting when canceling creation callbacks

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

5.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vishnu Razdan <vrazdan@openai.com>

commit 297b5ccea4acacaa47c150f043bce695202afbf1 upstream.

create_worker_cb() reserves an io-wq worker slot only after its
task-work callback runs. If the callback is canceled before then,
io_worker_cancel_cb() still decrements acct->nr_workers. When an
existing worker retires with its creation callback pending, that
worker has already decremented the same account's worker count.

The resulting undercount permits worker creation beyond the account's
configured limit. On an AST2600 OpenBMC system, an unchanged sensor
daemon reached 4,291 threads with the original kernel. With an
equivalent downstream fix, 25 passive samples under its normal
workload showed 6-9 threads.

Decrement nr_workers only when the canceled callback is not
create_worker_cb(). Continuation callbacks still release their reserved
slot, and both callback types retain the existing running-count,
reference-count, and create-state cleanup.

[ Backport: retain the existing worker->wqe->lock protecting worker
  accounting. ]

Fixes: 1d5f5ea7cb7d ("io-wq: remove worker to owner tw dependency")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260811-vrazdan-io-wq-b4-submit-v1-1-719ced16c921@openai.com
Signed-off-by: Vishnu Razdan <vrazdan@openai.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 io_uring/io-wq.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/io_uring/io-wq.c b/io_uring/io-wq.c
index edcb5af514b53..f57743d911b4c 100644
--- a/io_uring/io-wq.c
+++ b/io_uring/io-wq.c
@@ -195,9 +195,12 @@ static void io_worker_cancel_cb(struct io_worker *worker)
 	struct io_wq *wq = wqe->wq;
 
 	atomic_dec(&acct->nr_running);
-	raw_spin_lock(&worker->wqe->lock);
-	acct->nr_workers--;
-	raw_spin_unlock(&worker->wqe->lock);
+	/* create_worker_cb() has not reserved a worker slot yet. */
+	if (worker->create_work.func != create_worker_cb) {
+		raw_spin_lock(&worker->wqe->lock);
+		acct->nr_workers--;
+		raw_spin_unlock(&worker->wqe->lock);
+	}
 	io_worker_ref_put(wq);
 	clear_bit_unlock(0, &worker->create_state);
 	io_worker_release(worker);
-- 
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