Re: [syzbot] [io-uring?] INFO: task hung in io_uring_del_tctx_node (5)
From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Oct 27 2025 - 19:16:00 EST
On 10/27/25 4:57 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 04:04:05PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>
>> commit 1cba30bf9fdd6c982708f3587f609a30c370d889
>> Author: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu Oct 16 11:09:38 2025 -0700
>>
>> io_uring: add support for IORING_SETUP_SQE_MIXED
>>
>> leaves fdinfo open up to being broken. Before, we had:
>>
>> sq_entries = min(sq_tail - sq_head, ctx->sq_entries);
>>
>> as a cap for the loop, now you just have:
>>
>> while (sq_head < sq_tail) {
>>
>> which seems like a bad idea. It's also missing an sq_head increment if
>> we hit this condition:
>
> This would have to mean the application did an invalid head ring-wrap,
> right?
Right, it's a malicious use case. But you always have to be able to deal
with those, it's not like broken hardware in that sense.
> Regardless, I messed up and the wrong thing will happen here in
> that case as well as the one you mentioned.
Yep I think so too, was more interested in your opinion on the patch :-)
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Jens Axboe