Jens Axboe 4bdf75c2ef io_uring: check for presence of task_work rather than TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
commit 04beb6e0e08c30c6f845f50afb7d7953603d7a6f upstream.

If some part of the kernel adds task_work that needs executing, in terms
of signaling it'll generally use TWA_SIGNAL or TWA_RESUME. Those two
directly translate to TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL or TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, and can
be used for a variety of use case outside of task_work.

However, io_cqring_wait_schedule() only tests explicitly for
TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. This means it can miss if task_work got added for
the task, but used a different kind of signaling mechanism (or none at
all). Normally this doesn't matter as any task_work will be run once
the task exits to userspace, except if:

1) The ring is setup with DEFER_TASKRUN
2) The local work item may generate normal task_work

For condition 2, this can happen when closing a file and it's the final
put of that file, for example. This can cause stalls where a task is
waiting to make progress inside io_cqring_wait(), but there's nothing else
that will wake it up. Hence change the "should we schedule or loop around"
check to check for the presence of task_work explicitly, rather than just
TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL as the mechanism. While in there, also change the
ordering of what type of task_work first in terms of ordering, to both
make it consistent with other task_work runs in io_uring, but also to
better handle the case of defer task_work generating normal task_work,
like in the above example.

Reported-by: Jan Hendrik Farr <kernel@jfarr.cc>
Link: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/1235
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 846072f16e ("io_uring: mimimise io_cqring_wait_schedule")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-10-04 16:29:43 +02:00
2024-10-04 16:29:05 +02:00
2024-09-30 16:25:15 +02:00

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