[PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: don't post task management replies to io_uring poll queues

From: Md Haris Iqbal

Date: Wed Jul 15 2026 - 10:01:48 EST


mpt3sas_scsih_issue_tm() posts a task management (TM) request to the
reply queue given by @msix_task. For ABORT_TASK and the broadcast
primitive QUERY_TASK/ABORT_TASK paths, @msix_task is the msix_io of the
command being managed; for an io_uring polled (RWF_HIPRI) command that is
an io_uring poll reply queue (index >= ioc->iopoll_q_start_index).

io_uring poll queues have no MSI-X interrupt registered and are drained
only by mpt3sas_blk_mq_poll(), which the block layer calls to complete
polled block I/O. A task management request is not a block layer request,
so nothing polls on its behalf: the reply is posted to a queue that is
never serviced during the wait, tm_cmds.done is never completed, and the
TM times out even though the controller is healthy. The abort then
escalates to a controller reset that was not needed.

Post TM replies to reply queue 0 whenever the selected reply queue is an
io_uring poll queue; reply queue 0 is always interrupt-serviced. When
poll queues are disabled, iopoll_q_start_index equals reply_queue_count,
so the check is a no-op and behaviour is unchanged.

Reachable only when the driver is loaded with poll_queues > 0 and an
io_uring polled workload issues I/O that later times out and is aborted.

Fixes: 432bc7caef4e ("scsi: mpt3sas: Add io_uring iopoll support")
Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Found by code inspection while auditing the task-management reply path.
Posting for review of the analysis.

drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
index 12caffeed3a0..572ec1787e10 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
@@ -3186,6 +3186,16 @@ mpt3sas_scsih_issue_tm(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u16 handle, uint channel,
int_to_scsilun(lun, (struct scsi_lun *)mpi_request->LUN);
mpt3sas_scsih_set_tm_flag(ioc, handle);
init_completion(&ioc->tm_cmds.done);
+ /*
+ * A task management reply must be posted to an interrupt-serviced
+ * reply queue. If the associated command was submitted on an io_uring
+ * poll queue, that queue has no MSI-X interrupt and is drained only by
+ * mpt3sas_blk_mq_poll(); a task management request is not a block layer
+ * request, so nothing would process its reply and the command would
+ * time out. Fall back to reply queue 0 in that case.
+ */
+ if (msix_task >= ioc->iopoll_q_start_index)
+ msix_task = 0;
ioc->put_smid_hi_priority(ioc, smid, msix_task);
wait_for_completion_timeout(&ioc->tm_cmds.done, timeout*HZ);
if (!(ioc->tm_cmds.status & MPT3_CMD_COMPLETE)) {
--
2.43.0