[PATCH 5.15 039/179] io_uring: fail cancellation for EXITING tasks

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Nov 29 2021 - 17:39:57 EST


From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 617a89484debcd4e7999796d693cf0b77d2519de upstream.

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20 at fs/io_uring.c:6269 io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269
CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Workqueue: events io_fallback_req_func
RIP: 0010:io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269
Call Trace:
<TASK>
io_req_task_link_timeout+0x6b/0x1e0 fs/io_uring.c:6886
io_fallback_req_func+0xf9/0x1ae fs/io_uring.c:1334
process_one_work+0x9b2/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2298
worker_thread+0x658/0x11f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2445
kthread+0x405/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:327
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
</TASK>

We need original task's context to do cancellations, so if it's dying
and the callback is executed in a fallback mode, fail the cancellation
attempt.

Fixes: 89b263f6d56e6 ("io_uring: run linked timeouts from task_work")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 5.15+
Reported-by: syzbot+ab0cfe96c2b3cd1c1153@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4c41c5f379c6941ad5a07cd48cb66ed62199cf7e.1637937097.git.asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/io_uring.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -6886,10 +6886,11 @@ static inline struct file *io_file_get(s
static void io_req_task_link_timeout(struct io_kiocb *req, bool *locked)
{
struct io_kiocb *prev = req->timeout.prev;
- int ret;
+ int ret = -ENOENT;

if (prev) {
- ret = io_try_cancel_userdata(req, prev->user_data);
+ if (!(req->task->flags & PF_EXITING))
+ ret = io_try_cancel_userdata(req, prev->user_data);
io_req_complete_post(req, ret ?: -ETIME, 0);
io_put_req(prev);
} else {