FAILED: patch "[PATCH] io_uring: don't take uring_lock during iowq cancel" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 792bb6eb862333658bf1bd2260133f0507e2da8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:32:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] io_uring: don't take uring_lock during iowq cancel

[   97.866748] a.out/2890 is trying to acquire lock:
[   97.867829] ffff8881046763e8 (&ctx->uring_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at:
io_wq_submit_work+0x155/0x240
[   97.869735]
[   97.869735] but task is already holding lock:
[   97.871033] ffff88810dfe0be8 (&ctx->uring_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at:
__x64_sys_io_uring_enter+0x3f0/0x5b0
[   97.873074]
[   97.873074] other info that might help us debug this:
[   97.874520]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   97.874520]
[   97.875845]        CPU0
[   97.876440]        ----
[   97.877048]   lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
[   97.877961]   lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
[   97.878881]
[   97.878881]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[   97.878881]
[   97.880341]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[   97.880341]
[   97.881952] 1 lock held by a.out/2890:
[   97.882873]  #0: ffff88810dfe0be8 (&ctx->uring_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at:
__x64_sys_io_uring_enter+0x3f0/0x5b0
[   97.885108]
[   97.885108] stack backtrace:
[   97.890457] Call Trace:
[   97.891121]  dump_stack+0xac/0xe3
[   97.891972]  __lock_acquire+0xab6/0x13a0
[   97.892940]  lock_acquire+0x2c3/0x390
[   97.894894]  __mutex_lock+0xae/0x9f0
[   97.901101]  io_wq_submit_work+0x155/0x240
[   97.902112]  io_wq_cancel_cb+0x162/0x490
[   97.904126]  io_async_find_and_cancel+0x3b/0x140
[   97.905247]  io_issue_sqe+0x86d/0x13e0
[   97.909122]  __io_queue_sqe+0x10b/0x550
[   97.913971]  io_queue_sqe+0x235/0x470
[   97.914894]  io_submit_sqes+0xcce/0xf10
[   97.917872]  __x64_sys_io_uring_enter+0x3fb/0x5b0
[   97.921424]  do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x40
[   97.922329]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

While holding uring_lock, e.g. from inline execution, async cancel request may attempt cancellations through io_wq_submit_work, which may try to grab a lock. Delay it to task_work, so we do it from a clean context and don't have to worry about locking.

index 2fdfe5fa00b0..8dab07f42b34 100644
@@ -2337,7 +2337,9 @@ static void io_req_task_cancel(struct callback_head *cb)
 	struct io_kiocb *req = container_of(cb, struct io_kiocb, task_work);
 	struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = req->ctx;
 
+	mutex_lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
 	__io_req_task_cancel(req, -ECANCELED);
+	mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
 	percpu_ref_put(&ctx->refs);
 }
 

@@ -6426,8 +6428,13 @@ static void io_wq_submit_work(struct io_wq_work *work)
 	if (timeout)
 		io_queue_linked_timeout(timeout);
 
-	if (work->flags & IO_WQ_WORK_CANCEL)
-		ret = -ECANCELED;
+	if (work->flags & IO_WQ_WORK_CANCEL) {
+		/* io-wq is going to take down one */
+		refcount_inc(&req->refs);
+		percpu_ref_get(&req->ctx->refs);
+		io_req_task_work_add_fallback(req, io_req_task_cancel);
+		return;
+	}
 
 	if (!ret) {
 		do {