Arguably we want CQEs of linked requests be in a strict order of submission as it always was. Now if init of a request fails its CQE may be posted before all prior linked requests including the head of the link. Fix it by failing it last. Fixes: de59bc104c24f ("io_uring: fail links more in io_submit_sqe()") Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: expand commit description fs/io_uring.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index f8df982017fa..947c9524c53a 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -6459,8 +6459,6 @@ static int io_submit_sqe(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_kiocb *req, ret = io_init_req(ctx, req, sqe); if (unlikely(ret)) { fail_req: - io_put_req(req); - io_req_complete(req, ret); if (link->head) { /* fail even hard links since we don't submit */ link->head->flags |= REQ_F_FAIL_LINK; @@ -6468,6 +6466,8 @@ static int io_submit_sqe(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_kiocb *req, io_req_complete(link->head, -ECANCELED); link->head = NULL; } + io_put_req(req); + io_req_complete(req, ret); return ret; } ret = io_req_prep(req, sqe); -- 2.24.0