This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled io_uring: fix link lookup racing with link timeout to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: io_uring-fix-link-lookup-racing-with-link-timeout.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9a472ef7a3690ac0b77ebfb04c88fa795de2adea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 22:31:37 +0000 Subject: io_uring: fix link lookup racing with link timeout From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> commit 9a472ef7a3690ac0b77ebfb04c88fa795de2adea upstream. We can't just go over linked requests because it may race with linked timeouts. Take ctx->completion_lock in that case. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.7+ Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -8176,7 +8176,21 @@ static bool io_timeout_remove_link(struc static bool io_cancel_link_cb(struct io_wq_work *work, void *data) { - return io_match_link(container_of(work, struct io_kiocb, work), data); + struct io_kiocb *req = container_of(work, struct io_kiocb, work); + bool ret; + + if (req->flags & REQ_F_LINK_TIMEOUT) { + unsigned long flags; + struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = req->ctx; + + /* protect against races with linked timeouts */ + spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->completion_lock, flags); + ret = io_match_link(req, data); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->completion_lock, flags); + } else { + ret = io_match_link(req, data); + } + return ret; } static void io_attempt_cancel(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_kiocb *req) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.9/io_uring-don-t-miss-setting-io_wq_work_concurrent.patch queue-5.9/io_uring-fix-link-lookup-racing-with-link-timeout.patch