Re: [PATCH 5.10 21/63] kernel/io_uring: cancel io_uring before task works

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 04:06:39PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 04/01/2021 15:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit b1b6b5a30dce872f500dc43f067cba8e7f86fc7d upstream.
> >
> > For cancelling io_uring requests it needs either to be able to run
> > currently enqueued task_works or having it shut down by that moment.
> > Otherwise io_uring_cancel_files() may be waiting for requests that won't
> > ever complete.
>
> Greg, can you drop it from stable for now? I'll backport it later when
> related problems are sorted.

I've dropped it, let us know when it's good to go back in.

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Thanks,
Sasha