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. Reported-by: syzbot+ab0cfe96c2b3cd1c1153@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index a4c508a1e0cf..7dd112d44adf 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -6882,10 +6882,11 @@ static inline struct file *io_file_get(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, 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 { -- 2.34.0