With ->flush() gone we're now leaving all uring file notes until the task dies/execs, so the ctx will not be freed until all tasks that have ever submit a request die. It was nicer with flush but not much, we could have locked as described ctx in many cases. Now we guarantee that ctx outlives all tctx in a sense that io_ring_exit_work() waits for all tctxs to drop their corresponding enties in ->xa, and ctx won't go away until then. Hence, additional io_uring file reference (a.k.a. task file notes) are not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 9865b2c708c2..d819d389f4ee 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -8815,11 +8815,9 @@ static int io_uring_add_task_file(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct file *file) node->file = file; node->task = current; - get_file(file); ret = xa_err(xa_store(&tctx->xa, (unsigned long)file, node, GFP_KERNEL)); if (ret) { - fput(file); kfree(node); return ret; } @@ -8850,6 +8848,8 @@ static void io_uring_del_task_file(unsigned long index) struct io_uring_task *tctx = current->io_uring; struct io_tctx_node *node; + if (!tctx) + return; node = xa_erase(&tctx->xa, index); if (!node) return; @@ -8863,7 +8863,6 @@ static void io_uring_del_task_file(unsigned long index) if (tctx->last == node->file) tctx->last = NULL; - fput(node->file); kfree(node); } -- 2.24.0