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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2026-01-21 10:40:33 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2026-01-22 07:25:35 -0700
commit1f293098a31368a5d5cfab215a56f4cbed3f657a (patch)
tree7745b0269ab9e7d67c17e8b6efbee2ec24f1cb6b
parentdd120bddc43af583e3bc9afe75f58bb9280947b0 (diff)
io_uring/io-wq: don't trigger hung task for syzbot craziness
Use the same trick that blk_io_schedule() does to avoid triggering the hung task warning (and potential reboot/panic, depending on system settings), and only wait for half the hung task timeout at the time. If we exceed the default IO_URING_EXIT_WAIT_MAX period where we expect things to certainly have finished unless there's a bug, then throw a WARN_ON_ONCE() for that case. Reported-by: syzbot+4eb282331cab6d5b6588@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+4eb282331cab6d5b6588@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--io_uring/io-wq.c22
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/io_uring/io-wq.c b/io_uring/io-wq.c
index cd13d8aac3d2..aaf1dfc21763 100644
--- a/io_uring/io-wq.c
+++ b/io_uring/io-wq.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/task_work.h>
#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/mmu_context.h>
+#include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
#include <uapi/linux/io_uring.h>
#include "io-wq.h"
@@ -1316,6 +1317,8 @@ static void io_wq_cancel_tw_create(struct io_wq *wq)
static void io_wq_exit_workers(struct io_wq *wq)
{
+ unsigned long timeout, warn_timeout;
+
if (!wq->task)
return;
@@ -1325,7 +1328,24 @@ static void io_wq_exit_workers(struct io_wq *wq)
io_wq_for_each_worker(wq, io_wq_worker_wake, NULL);
rcu_read_unlock();
io_worker_ref_put(wq);
- wait_for_completion(&wq->worker_done);
+
+ /*
+ * Shut up hung task complaint, see for example
+ *
+ * https://lore.kernel.org/all/696fc9e7.a70a0220.111c58.0006.GAE@google.com/
+ *
+ * where completely overloading the system with tons of long running
+ * io-wq items can easily trigger the hung task timeout. Only sleep
+ * uninterruptibly for half that time, and warn if we exceeded end
+ * up waiting more than IO_URING_EXIT_WAIT_MAX.
+ */
+ timeout = sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs * HZ / 2;
+ warn_timeout = jiffies + IO_URING_EXIT_WAIT_MAX;
+ do {
+ if (wait_for_completion_timeout(&wq->worker_done, timeout))
+ break;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(time_after(jiffies, warn_timeout));
+ } while (1);
spin_lock_irq(&wq->hash->wait.lock);
list_del_init(&wq->wait.entry);