[PATCH 2/2] io_uring/poll: cancel all matching requests in one pass

From: Shang En Sim

Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 - 01:05:04 EST


With IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_ALL, __io_async_cancel() calls io_try_cancel()
until nothing is found, and io_poll_cancel() cancels one request per
call, starting each lookup at the beginning of the hash. A cancelled
request stays hashed until its task work runs, so every lookup walks
past the ones already cancelled. Cancelling K of N pending polls visits
about K*N/2 requests in one io_uring_enter(), with uring_lock held.

A single CANCEL_FD|ALL on 80000 polls on one eventfd takes 17.06s,
0.02s with this change. With voluntary preemption the soft lockup
watchdog fires:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 26s! [repro:100]
RIP: 0010:io_cancel_req_match+0x19/0xa0
io_poll_cancel+0x73/0x170
io_try_cancel+0x7b/0xf0
__io_async_cancel+0x41/0x110

Walk the hash once and cancel every match, as io_cancel_remove() does
for futex and waitid. Cancel by user_data only needs its own bucket.
__io_async_cancel() still loops until nothing is found, so a request
that io-wq parks in the poll hash meanwhile is still cancelled.

A cancel that matches one request now walks the whole hash twice instead
of stopping at the match.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 8e29da69fead ("io_uring: add support for IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_ALL")
Signed-off-by: Shang En Sim <sim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
io_uring/cancel.c | 2 +-
io_uring/poll.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/io_uring/cancel.c b/io_uring/cancel.c
index 50a65fbc6ff0..e3d9fe8fc982 100644
--- a/io_uring/cancel.c
+++ b/io_uring/cancel.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int __io_async_cancel(struct io_cancel_data *cd,
break;
if (!all)
return ret;
- /* futex and waitid return how many they cancelled */
+ /* poll, futex and waitid return how many they cancelled */
nr += max(ret, 1);
} while (1);

diff --git a/io_uring/poll.c b/io_uring/poll.c
index 4f04bda42f7f..9b73b0d88a0e 100644
--- a/io_uring/poll.c
+++ b/io_uring/poll.c
@@ -827,12 +827,47 @@ static int io_poll_disarm(struct io_kiocb *req)
return 0;
}

+/*
+ * Cancel every request matching @cd in one pass. Cancelled requests stay
+ * hashed until their task work runs, so finding them one at a time would
+ * walk past all the earlier ones on each lookup.
+ */
+static int io_poll_cancel_all(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_cancel_data *cd)
+{
+ unsigned int nr_buckets = 1U << ctx->cancel_table.hash_bits;
+ unsigned int i = 0;
+ struct hlist_node *tmp;
+ struct io_kiocb *req;
+ int nr = 0;
+
+ if (!(cd->flags & (IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_FD | IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_OP |
+ IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_ANY))) {
+ /* keyed by user_data, so only one bucket can match */
+ i = hash_long(cd->data, ctx->cancel_table.hash_bits);
+ nr_buckets = i + 1;
+ }
+
+ for (; i < nr_buckets; i++) {
+ struct io_hash_bucket *hb = &ctx->cancel_table.hbs[i];
+
+ hlist_for_each_entry_safe(req, tmp, &hb->list, hash_node) {
+ if (!io_cancel_req_match(req, cd))
+ continue;
+ io_poll_cancel_req(req);
+ nr++;
+ }
+ }
+ return nr ?: -ENOENT;
+}
+
static int __io_poll_cancel(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_cancel_data *cd)
{
struct io_kiocb *req;

- if (cd->flags & (IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_FD | IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_OP |
- IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_ANY))
+ if (cd->flags & (IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_ALL | IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_ANY))
+ return io_poll_cancel_all(ctx, cd);
+
+ if (cd->flags & (IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_FD | IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL_OP))
req = io_poll_file_find(ctx, cd);
else
req = io_poll_find(ctx, false, cd);
--
2.56.0