[PATCH 6.6 090/254] io_uring: move local task_work in exit cancel loop
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2026-01-28 15:31:26
Also in:
stable
6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ming Lei <redacted>
commit da579f05ef0faada3559e7faddf761c75cdf85e1 upstream.
With IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN, task work is queued to ctx->work_llist
(local work) rather than the fallback list. During io_ring_exit_work(),
io_move_task_work_from_local() was called once before the cancel loop,
moving work from work_llist to fallback_llist.
However, task work can be added to work_llist during the cancel loop
itself. There are two cases:
1) io_kill_timeouts() is called from io_uring_try_cancel_requests() to
cancel pending timeouts, and it adds task work via io_req_queue_tw_complete()
for each cancelled timeout:
2) URING_CMD requests like ublk can be completed via
io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task() from ublk_queue_rq() during canceling,
given ublk request queue is only quiesced when canceling the 1st uring_cmd.
Since io_allowed_defer_tw_run() returns false in io_ring_exit_work()
(kworker != submitter_task), io_run_local_work() is never invoked,
and the work_llist entries are never processed. This causes
io_uring_try_cancel_requests() to loop indefinitely, resulting in
100% CPU usage in kworker threads.
Fix this by moving io_move_task_work_from_local() inside the cancel
loop, ensuring any work on work_llist is moved to fallback before
each cancel attempt.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c0e0d6ba25f1 ("io_uring: add IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
io_uring/io_uring.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/io_uring/io_uring.c
+++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c@@ -3191,11 +3191,11 @@ static __cold void io_ring_exit_work(str mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock); } - if (ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN) - io_move_task_work_from_local(ctx); - - while (io_uring_try_cancel_requests(ctx, NULL, true)) + do { + if (ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN) + io_move_task_work_from_local(ctx); cond_resched(); + } while (io_uring_try_cancel_requests(ctx, NULL, true)); if (ctx->sq_data) { struct io_sq_data *sqd = ctx->sq_data;