FAILED: patch "[PATCH] exec: cancel io_uring requests before de_thread()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x b42c85c20d84ff3e4f0f027d6596c3b3b4a20657
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026102819-underpay-angelic-b6e8@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From b42c85c20d84ff3e4f0f027d6596c3b3b4a20657 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:45:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] exec: cancel io_uring requests before de_thread()

begin_new_exec() cancels the exec'ing thread's io_uring requests after
de_thread() made it the only thread in the thread-group. Now
io_uring_task_cancel() runs task work after. If it runs a
create_worker_cb() item then a io-wq queued on the thread before the
exec creates a new io-wq worker thread.

Said thread joins the thread-group which de_thread() just took down. The
io-iwq sticks around until it notices that its workqueue is dying. But
code after de_thread() relies on being single-threaded.

Move io_uring_task_cancel() before de_thread() but behind the point of
no return. Any worker created during task work run from
io_uring_task_cancel() is just a sibling thread that de_thread() will
take down and reap.

Once io_uring_task_cancel() returned the thread has neither a task
context nor a workqueue left so nothing can add a thread behind
de_thread()'s back anymore.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aq0_lvHDViIpX_Mu@redhat.com
Fixes: 3bfe6106693b ("io-wq: fork worker threads from original task")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921-work-coredump-fixes-v3-12-8e4adb1619e6@kernel.org
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 745f6eb5279e..bf143ee3acb1 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1148,16 +1148,19 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 	 */
 	bprm->point_of_no_return = true;
 
+	/*
+	 * Cancel any io_uring activity across execve. This runs task work
+	 * that may still create an io-wq worker, so do it while de_thread()
+	 * can still zap it.
+	 */
+	io_uring_task_cancel();
+
 	/* Make this the only thread in the thread group */
 	retval = de_thread(me);
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
 	/* see the comment in check_unsafe_exec() */
 	current->fs->in_exec = 0;
-	/*
-	 * Cancel any io_uring activity across execve
-	 */
-	io_uring_task_cancel();
 
 	/* Ensure the files table is not shared. */
 	retval = unshare_files();