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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7.3.y 07/16] io_uring/io-wq: no new workers once the exit has begun
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 2026 11:44:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104184447.516768-8-axboe@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104184447.516768-1-axboe@kernel.dk>

From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

Commit 47c68f925062a6013235d06add85a59f7d91e0fb upstream.

io_wq_exit_start() sets IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT, but worker creation task_work
queued before that stays queued until io_wq_exit_workers() cancels it.
In between the task runs its task_work while canceling requests, and a
worker can still get created.

That's a problem for exec. begin_new_exec() calls io_uring_task_cancel()
after de_thread(), when it's supposedly the only thread left, and
io_wq_exit_workers() only waits for ->worker_done, which a worker
completes before do_exit(). So the exiting worker is still in the thread
group, using the mm, files and sighand, while exec replaces them. Easy
to hit with a signal pending when create_io_thread() fails and the retry
gets queued right before execve().

Cancel the queued creation task_work as soon as the exit bit is set.
Pending work that isn't otherwise canceled now ends with -ECANCELED when
the io-wq is destroyed, rather than depending on whether the task
happened to run its task_work first.

Fixes: 685fe7feedb9 ("io-wq: eliminate the need for a manager thread")
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
[axboe: the barrier is already upstream, see 0e5663856b69, only the
 cancel is new]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
 io_uring/io-wq.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/io_uring/io-wq.c b/io_uring/io-wq.c
index c48f2475d03c..6b9395060262 100644
--- a/io_uring/io-wq.c
+++ b/io_uring/io-wq.c
@@ -1416,6 +1416,12 @@ 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();
+	/*
+	 * No more workers from here on. The caller is going to run its task
+	 * work, and on exec a thread that is created now would still be
+	 * around, exiting, by the time that the caller must be on its own.
+	 */
+	io_wq_cancel_tw_create(wq);
 }
 
 static void io_wq_cancel_tw_create(struct io_wq *wq)
-- 
2.56.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-04 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04 18:44 [PATCH 7.3.y 00/16] io_uring fixes for 7.3-stable Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 01/16] io_uring/kbuf: advance head when a pickup empties the buffer ring Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 02/16] io_uring/net: keep recvmsg buffer select length within MAX_RW_COUNT Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 03/16] io_uring/net: mask socket type with SOCK_TYPE_MASK in io_socket_bpf_populate() Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 04/16] io_uring/register: enforce per-task restrictions in io_uring_register_blind() Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 05/16] io_uring/net: don't retry a non-blocking connect() that fails with -EAGAIN Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 06/16] io_uring: keep the drain active when a deferred drain request is started Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 08/16] io_uring/rsrc: charge buffer arrays and nodes to memcg Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 09/16] io_uring: charge tctx nodes and personalities Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 10/16] io_uring: free XArray nodes left by a failed store Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 11/16] io_uring/bpf-ops: clear bpf_ctx while submitting SQEs Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 12/16] io_uring: free the task context after a grace period Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 13/16] io_uring/sqpoll: don't wait for the thread to exit Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 14/16] io_uring: defer foreign io-wq enqueues to task_work Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 15/16] io_uring/timeout: count cancelled timeouts in cq_timeouts Jens Axboe
2026-11-04 18:44 ` [PATCH 7.3.y 16/16] io_uring/net: fix multishot recv length limit accounting Jens Axboe

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