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<title>io_uring/uring_cmd: don't skip completion for a synchronous multishot cmd</title>
<updated>2026-08-27T12:34:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2026-08-15T23:53:44+00:00</published>
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commit 360941242f09437a1e07cbed9b5a96663ffeabb6 upstream.

If IORING_URING_CMD_MULTISHOT is set, io_uring_cmd() treats any
non-negative return from -&gt;uring_cmd() as the driver having taken
ownership of the request and returns IOU_ISSUE_SKIP_COMPLETE. But
nothing guarantees that the driver did so, and any handler that just
completes the command inline and returns 0 or a positive result then
leaves the request orphaned, leaking the io_kiocb, the async data,
and the file reference.

The special case isn't needed. ublk returns -EIOCBQUEUED for the
multishot fetch command, which is passed through as-is, and the poll
driven socket timestamp command returns -EAGAIN. Kill it, a multishot
handler that wants to hang on to the request must return -EIOCBQUEUED
or -EAGAIN like any other command.

Fixes: 620a50c92700 ("io_uring: uring_cmd: add multishot support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+a4ccdd7ebf452e4d4701@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a7a0194.b50370da.49fe0.0056.GAE@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260811115125.1831170-1-vasilisalmpanis@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 360941242f09437a1e07cbed9b5a96663ffeabb6 upstream.

If IORING_URING_CMD_MULTISHOT is set, io_uring_cmd() treats any
non-negative return from -&gt;uring_cmd() as the driver having taken
ownership of the request and returns IOU_ISSUE_SKIP_COMPLETE. But
nothing guarantees that the driver did so, and any handler that just
completes the command inline and returns 0 or a positive result then
leaves the request orphaned, leaking the io_kiocb, the async data,
and the file reference.

The special case isn't needed. ublk returns -EIOCBQUEUED for the
multishot fetch command, which is passed through as-is, and the poll
driven socket timestamp command returns -EAGAIN. Kill it, a multishot
handler that wants to hang on to the request must return -EIOCBQUEUED
or -EAGAIN like any other command.

Fixes: 620a50c92700 ("io_uring: uring_cmd: add multishot support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+a4ccdd7ebf452e4d4701@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a7a0194.b50370da.49fe0.0056.GAE@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260811115125.1831170-1-vasilisalmpanis@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/cmd: fix iovec leak when the async cmd is not recycled</title>
<updated>2026-08-27T12:34:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Woraphat Khiaodaeng</name>
<email>worapat.kd2@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-02T07:35:18+00:00</published>
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commit bb34ae5da3365699d53a756f4c96b6ea9f8ba0c1 upstream.

An io_async_cmd carries an iovec array in -&gt;vec.iovec, allocated when the
vec has to grow and kept across recycling through ctx-&gt;cmd_cache.  On two
paths nothing frees it and io_clean_op()'s kfree(req-&gt;async_data) drops
the io_async_cmd without it.

io_req_uring_cleanup() clears the async data flags only when
io_alloc_cache_put() succeeds, and the cache holds IO_ALLOC_CACHE_MAX ==
128 entries, so once it is full the put fails and the vec is left behind.
An NVMe passthrough workload gets there without doing anything unusual:
nvme_uring_cmd_io() returns -EIOCBQUEUED, so the io_async_cmd stays
attached for the lifetime of the command and the live object count tracks
the queue depth.  Above 128 the puts start failing.

-&gt;cleanup is the last chance to free an inherited vec, since
io_req_uring_cleanup() returns early for an io-wq issued command and is
not called at all for one completed without ever being issued.  But
io_clean_op() calls -&gt;cleanup only if REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP is set, and for
uring_cmd that happens only where the vec has to grow, so a command
reusing a large enough cached vec never sets it.  io_rw_alloc_async() and
io_msg_alloc_async() flag an inherited vec for exactly this reason;
io_uring_cmd_prep() does not.

Flag an inherited vec in io_uring_cmd_prep(), and free the vec when the
cache put fails, as io_req_rw_cleanup() does.

The leak is invisible under KASAN, where io_alloc_cache_vec_kasan() frees
the vec unconditionally.

Fixes: 3a4689ac109f ("io_uring/cmd: add iovec cache for commands")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Woraphat Khiaodaeng &lt;worapat.kd2@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802073518.419-1-worapat.kd2@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit bb34ae5da3365699d53a756f4c96b6ea9f8ba0c1 upstream.

An io_async_cmd carries an iovec array in -&gt;vec.iovec, allocated when the
vec has to grow and kept across recycling through ctx-&gt;cmd_cache.  On two
paths nothing frees it and io_clean_op()'s kfree(req-&gt;async_data) drops
the io_async_cmd without it.

io_req_uring_cleanup() clears the async data flags only when
io_alloc_cache_put() succeeds, and the cache holds IO_ALLOC_CACHE_MAX ==
128 entries, so once it is full the put fails and the vec is left behind.
An NVMe passthrough workload gets there without doing anything unusual:
nvme_uring_cmd_io() returns -EIOCBQUEUED, so the io_async_cmd stays
attached for the lifetime of the command and the live object count tracks
the queue depth.  Above 128 the puts start failing.

-&gt;cleanup is the last chance to free an inherited vec, since
io_req_uring_cleanup() returns early for an io-wq issued command and is
not called at all for one completed without ever being issued.  But
io_clean_op() calls -&gt;cleanup only if REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP is set, and for
uring_cmd that happens only where the vec has to grow, so a command
reusing a large enough cached vec never sets it.  io_rw_alloc_async() and
io_msg_alloc_async() flag an inherited vec for exactly this reason;
io_uring_cmd_prep() does not.

Flag an inherited vec in io_uring_cmd_prep(), and free the vec when the
cache put fails, as io_req_rw_cleanup() does.

The leak is invisible under KASAN, where io_alloc_cache_vec_kasan() frees
the vec unconditionally.

Fixes: 3a4689ac109f ("io_uring/cmd: add iovec cache for commands")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Woraphat Khiaodaeng &lt;worapat.kd2@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802073518.419-1-worapat.kd2@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/uring_cmd: allow non-iopoll cmds with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL</title>
<updated>2026-03-16T22:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Caleb Sander Mateos</name>
<email>csander@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-02T17:29:13+00:00</published>
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Currently, creating an io_uring with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL requires all
requests issued to it to support iopoll. This prevents, for example,
using ublk zero-copy together with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL, as ublk
zero-copy buffer registrations are performed using a uring_cmd. There's
no technical reason why these non-iopoll uring_cmds can't be supported.
They will either complete synchronously or via an external mechanism
that calls io_uring_cmd_done(), io_uring_cmd_post_mshot_cqe32(), or
io_uring_mshot_cmd_post_cqe(), so they don't need to be polled.

Allow uring_cmd requests to be issued to IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL io_urings
even if their files don't implement -&gt;uring_cmd_iopoll(). For these
uring_cmd requests, skip initializing struct io_kiocb's iopoll fields,
don't set REQ_F_IOPOLL, and don't set IO_URING_F_IOPOLL in issue_flags.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302172914.2488599-5-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Currently, creating an io_uring with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL requires all
requests issued to it to support iopoll. This prevents, for example,
using ublk zero-copy together with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL, as ublk
zero-copy buffer registrations are performed using a uring_cmd. There's
no technical reason why these non-iopoll uring_cmds can't be supported.
They will either complete synchronously or via an external mechanism
that calls io_uring_cmd_done(), io_uring_cmd_post_mshot_cqe32(), or
io_uring_mshot_cmd_post_cqe(), so they don't need to be polled.

Allow uring_cmd requests to be issued to IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL io_urings
even if their files don't implement -&gt;uring_cmd_iopoll(). For these
uring_cmd requests, skip initializing struct io_kiocb's iopoll fields,
don't set REQ_F_IOPOLL, and don't set IO_URING_F_IOPOLL in issue_flags.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302172914.2488599-5-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring: add REQ_F_IOPOLL</title>
<updated>2026-03-16T22:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Caleb Sander Mateos</name>
<email>csander@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-02T17:29:10+00:00</published>
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A subsequent commit will allow uring_cmds to files that don't implement
-&gt;uring_cmd_iopoll() to be issued to IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL io_urings. This
means the ctx's IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL flag isn't sufficient to determine
whether a given request needs to be iopolled.

Introduce a request flag REQ_F_IOPOLL set in -&gt;issue() if a request
needs to be iopolled to completion. Set the flag in io_rw_init_file()
and io_uring_cmd() for requests issued to IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL ctxs. Use
the request flag instead of IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL in places dealing with a
specific request.

A future possibility would be to add an option to enable/disable iopoll
in the io_uring SQE instead of determining it from IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302172914.2488599-2-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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A subsequent commit will allow uring_cmds to files that don't implement
-&gt;uring_cmd_iopoll() to be issued to IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL io_urings. This
means the ctx's IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL flag isn't sufficient to determine
whether a given request needs to be iopolled.

Introduce a request flag REQ_F_IOPOLL set in -&gt;issue() if a request
needs to be iopolled to completion. Set the flag in io_rw_init_file()
and io_uring_cmd() for requests issued to IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL ctxs. Use
the request flag instead of IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL in places dealing with a
specific request.

A future possibility would be to add an option to enable/disable iopoll
in the io_uring SQE instead of determining it from IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302172914.2488599-2-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/uring_cmd: explicitly disallow cancelations for IOPOLL</title>
<updated>2026-01-15T05:04:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-14T15:51:02+00:00</published>
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This currently isn't supported, and due to a recent commit, it also
cannot easily be supported by io_uring due to hash_node and IOPOLL
completion data overlapping.

This can be revisited if we ever do support cancelations of requests
that have gone to the block stack.

Suggested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This currently isn't supported, and due to a recent commit, it also
cannot easily be supported by io_uring due to hash_node and IOPOLL
completion data overlapping.

This can be revisited if we ever do support cancelations of requests
that have gone to the block stack.

Suggested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/uring_cmd: avoid double indirect call in task work dispatch</title>
<updated>2025-11-03T15:31:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Caleb Sander Mateos</name>
<email>csander@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-31T20:34:30+00:00</published>
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io_uring task work dispatch makes an indirect call to struct io_kiocb's
io_task_work.func field to allow running arbitrary task work functions.
In the uring_cmd case, this calls io_uring_cmd_work(), which immediately
makes another indirect call to struct io_uring_cmd's task_work_cb field.
Change the uring_cmd task work callbacks to functions whose signatures
match io_req_tw_func_t. Add a function io_uring_cmd_from_tw() to convert
from the task work's struct io_tw_req argument to struct io_uring_cmd *.
Define a constant IO_URING_CMD_TASK_WORK_ISSUE_FLAGS to avoid
manufacturing issue_flags in the uring_cmd task work callbacks. Now
uring_cmd task work dispatch makes a single indirect call to the
uring_cmd implementation's callback. This also allows removing the
task_work_cb field from struct io_uring_cmd, freeing up 8 bytes for
future storage.
Since fuse_uring_send_in_task() now has access to the io_tw_token_t,
check its cancel field directly instead of relying on the
IO_URING_F_TASK_DEAD issue flag.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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io_uring task work dispatch makes an indirect call to struct io_kiocb's
io_task_work.func field to allow running arbitrary task work functions.
In the uring_cmd case, this calls io_uring_cmd_work(), which immediately
makes another indirect call to struct io_uring_cmd's task_work_cb field.
Change the uring_cmd task work callbacks to functions whose signatures
match io_req_tw_func_t. Add a function io_uring_cmd_from_tw() to convert
from the task work's struct io_tw_req argument to struct io_uring_cmd *.
Define a constant IO_URING_CMD_TASK_WORK_ISSUE_FLAGS to avoid
manufacturing issue_flags in the uring_cmd task work callbacks. Now
uring_cmd task work dispatch makes a single indirect call to the
uring_cmd implementation's callback. This also allows removing the
task_work_cb field from struct io_uring_cmd, freeing up 8 bytes for
future storage.
Since fuse_uring_send_in_task() now has access to the io_tw_token_t,
check its cancel field directly instead of relying on the
IO_URING_F_TASK_DEAD issue flag.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring: add wrapper type for io_req_tw_func_t arg</title>
<updated>2025-11-03T15:31:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Caleb Sander Mateos</name>
<email>csander@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-31T20:34:29+00:00</published>
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In preparation for uring_cmd implementations to implement functions
with the io_req_tw_func_t signature, introduce a wrapper struct
io_tw_req to hide the struct io_kiocb * argument. The intention is for
only the io_uring core to access the inner struct io_kiocb *. uring_cmd
implementations should instead call a helper from io_uring/cmd.h to
convert struct io_tw_req to struct io_uring_cmd *.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In preparation for uring_cmd implementations to implement functions
with the io_req_tw_func_t signature, introduce a wrapper struct
io_tw_req to hide the struct io_kiocb * argument. The intention is for
only the io_uring core to access the inner struct io_kiocb *. uring_cmd
implementations should instead call a helper from io_uring/cmd.h to
convert struct io_tw_req to struct io_uring_cmd *.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring: add support for IORING_SETUP_SQE_MIXED</title>
<updated>2025-10-22T13:34:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>kbusch@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-16T18:09:38+00:00</published>
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Normal rings support 64b SQEs for posting submissions, while certain
features require the ring to be configured with IORING_SETUP_SQE128, as
they need to convey more information per submission. This, in turn,
makes ALL the SQEs be 128b in size. This is somewhat wasteful and
inefficient, particularly when only certain SQEs need to be of the
bigger variant.

This adds support for setting up a ring with mixed SQE sizes, using
IORING_SETUP_SQE_MIXED. When setup in this mode, SQEs posted to the ring
may be either 64b or 128b in size. If a SQE is 128b in size, then opcode
will be set to a variante to indicate that this is the case. Any other
non-128b opcode will assume the SQ's default size.

SQEs on these types of mixed rings may also utilize NOP with skip
success set.  This can happen if the ring is one (small) SQE entry away
from wrapping, and an attempt is made to get a 128b SQE. As SQEs must be
contiguous in the SQ ring, a 128b SQE cannot wrap the ring. For this
case, a single NOP SQE should be inserted with the SKIP_SUCCESS flag
set. The kernel will process this as a normal NOP and without posting a
CQE.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
[axboe: {} style fix and assign sqe before opcode read]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Normal rings support 64b SQEs for posting submissions, while certain
features require the ring to be configured with IORING_SETUP_SQE128, as
they need to convey more information per submission. This, in turn,
makes ALL the SQEs be 128b in size. This is somewhat wasteful and
inefficient, particularly when only certain SQEs need to be of the
bigger variant.

This adds support for setting up a ring with mixed SQE sizes, using
IORING_SETUP_SQE_MIXED. When setup in this mode, SQEs posted to the ring
may be either 64b or 128b in size. If a SQE is 128b in size, then opcode
will be set to a variante to indicate that this is the case. Any other
non-128b opcode will assume the SQ's default size.

SQEs on these types of mixed rings may also utilize NOP with skip
success set.  This can happen if the ring is one (small) SQE entry away
from wrapping, and an attempt is made to get a 128b SQE. As SQEs must be
contiguous in the SQ ring, a 128b SQE cannot wrap the ring. For this
case, a single NOP SQE should be inserted with the SKIP_SUCCESS flag
set. The kernel will process this as a normal NOP and without posting a
CQE.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
[axboe: {} style fix and assign sqe before opcode read]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring: unify task_work cancelation checks</title>
<updated>2025-10-20T16:37:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T10:25:22+00:00</published>
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Rather than do per-tw checking, which needs to dip into the task_struct
for checking flags, do it upfront before running task_work. This places
a 'cancel' member in io_tw_token_t, which is assigned before running
task_work for that given ctx.

This is both more efficient in doing it upfront rather than for every
task_work, and it means that io_should_terminate_tw() can be made
private in io_uring.c rather than need to be called by various
callbacks of task_work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Rather than do per-tw checking, which needs to dip into the task_struct
for checking flags, do it upfront before running task_work. This places
a 'cancel' member in io_tw_token_t, which is assigned before running
task_work for that given ctx.

This is both more efficient in doing it upfront rather than for every
task_work, and it means that io_should_terminate_tw() can be made
private in io_uring.c rather than need to be called by various
callbacks of task_work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T16:56:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T16:56:23+00:00</published>
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Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Store ring provided buffers locally for the users, rather than stuff
   them into struct io_kiocb.

   These types of buffers must always be fully consumed or recycled in
   the current context, and leaving them in struct io_kiocb is hence not
   a good ideas as that struct has a vastly different life time.

   Basically just an architecture cleanup that can help prevent issues
   with ring provided buffers in the future.

 - Support for mixed CQE sizes in the same ring.

   Before this change, a CQ ring either used the default 16b CQEs, or it
   was setup with 32b CQE using IORING_SETUP_CQE32. For use cases where
   a few 32b CQEs were needed, this caused everything else to use big
   CQEs. This is wasteful both in terms of memory usage, but also memory
   bandwidth for the posted CQEs.

   With IORING_SETUP_CQE_MIXED, applications may use request types that
   post both normal 16b and big 32b CQEs on the same ring.

 - Add helpers for async data management, to make it harder for opcode
   handlers to mess it up.

 - Add support for multishot for uring_cmd, which ublk can use. This
   helps improve efficiency, by providing a persistent request type that
   can trigger multiple CQEs.

 - Add initial support for ring feature querying.

   We had basic support for probe operations, but the API isn't great.
   Rather than expand that, add support for QUERY which is easily
   expandable and can cover a lot more cases than the existing probe
   support. This will help applications get a better idea of what
   operations are supported on a given host.

 - zcrx improvements from Pavel:
        - Improve refill entry alignment for better caching
        - Various cleanups, especially around deduplicating normal
          memory vs dmabuf setup.
        - Generalisation of the niov size (Patch 12). It's still hard
          coded to PAGE_SIZE on init, but will let the user to specify
          the rx buffer length on setup.
        - Syscall / synchronous bufer return. It'll be used as a slow
          fallback path for returning buffers when the refill queue is
          full. Useful for tolerating slight queue size misconfiguration
          or with inconsistent load.
        - Accounting more memory to cgroups.
        - Additional independent cleanups that will also be useful for
          mutli-area support.

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (68 commits)
  io_uring/cmd: drop unused res2 param from io_uring_cmd_done()
  io_uring: fix nvme's 32b cqes on mixed cq
  io_uring/query: cap number of queries
  io_uring/query: prevent infinite loops
  io_uring/zcrx: account niov arrays to cgroup
  io_uring/zcrx: allow synchronous buffer return
  io_uring/zcrx: introduce io_parse_rqe()
  io_uring/zcrx: don't adjust free cache space
  io_uring/zcrx: use guards for the refill lock
  io_uring/zcrx: reduce netmem scope in refill
  io_uring/zcrx: protect netdev with pp_lock
  io_uring/zcrx: rename dma lock
  io_uring/zcrx: make niov size variable
  io_uring/zcrx: set sgt for umem area
  io_uring/zcrx: remove dmabuf_offset
  io_uring/zcrx: deduplicate area mapping
  io_uring/zcrx: pass ifq to io_zcrx_alloc_fallback()
  io_uring/zcrx: check all niovs filled with dma addresses
  io_uring/zcrx: move area reg checks into io_import_area
  io_uring/zcrx: don't pass slot to io_zcrx_create_area
  ...
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Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Store ring provided buffers locally for the users, rather than stuff
   them into struct io_kiocb.

   These types of buffers must always be fully consumed or recycled in
   the current context, and leaving them in struct io_kiocb is hence not
   a good ideas as that struct has a vastly different life time.

   Basically just an architecture cleanup that can help prevent issues
   with ring provided buffers in the future.

 - Support for mixed CQE sizes in the same ring.

   Before this change, a CQ ring either used the default 16b CQEs, or it
   was setup with 32b CQE using IORING_SETUP_CQE32. For use cases where
   a few 32b CQEs were needed, this caused everything else to use big
   CQEs. This is wasteful both in terms of memory usage, but also memory
   bandwidth for the posted CQEs.

   With IORING_SETUP_CQE_MIXED, applications may use request types that
   post both normal 16b and big 32b CQEs on the same ring.

 - Add helpers for async data management, to make it harder for opcode
   handlers to mess it up.

 - Add support for multishot for uring_cmd, which ublk can use. This
   helps improve efficiency, by providing a persistent request type that
   can trigger multiple CQEs.

 - Add initial support for ring feature querying.

   We had basic support for probe operations, but the API isn't great.
   Rather than expand that, add support for QUERY which is easily
   expandable and can cover a lot more cases than the existing probe
   support. This will help applications get a better idea of what
   operations are supported on a given host.

 - zcrx improvements from Pavel:
        - Improve refill entry alignment for better caching
        - Various cleanups, especially around deduplicating normal
          memory vs dmabuf setup.
        - Generalisation of the niov size (Patch 12). It's still hard
          coded to PAGE_SIZE on init, but will let the user to specify
          the rx buffer length on setup.
        - Syscall / synchronous bufer return. It'll be used as a slow
          fallback path for returning buffers when the refill queue is
          full. Useful for tolerating slight queue size misconfiguration
          or with inconsistent load.
        - Accounting more memory to cgroups.
        - Additional independent cleanups that will also be useful for
          mutli-area support.

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (68 commits)
  io_uring/cmd: drop unused res2 param from io_uring_cmd_done()
  io_uring: fix nvme's 32b cqes on mixed cq
  io_uring/query: cap number of queries
  io_uring/query: prevent infinite loops
  io_uring/zcrx: account niov arrays to cgroup
  io_uring/zcrx: allow synchronous buffer return
  io_uring/zcrx: introduce io_parse_rqe()
  io_uring/zcrx: don't adjust free cache space
  io_uring/zcrx: use guards for the refill lock
  io_uring/zcrx: reduce netmem scope in refill
  io_uring/zcrx: protect netdev with pp_lock
  io_uring/zcrx: rename dma lock
  io_uring/zcrx: make niov size variable
  io_uring/zcrx: set sgt for umem area
  io_uring/zcrx: remove dmabuf_offset
  io_uring/zcrx: deduplicate area mapping
  io_uring/zcrx: pass ifq to io_zcrx_alloc_fallback()
  io_uring/zcrx: check all niovs filled with dma addresses
  io_uring/zcrx: move area reg checks into io_import_area
  io_uring/zcrx: don't pass slot to io_zcrx_create_area
  ...
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