7.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Christian Brauner [ Upstream commit b42c85c20d84ff3e4f0f027d6596c3b3b4a20657 ] begin_new_exec() cancels the exec'ing thread's io_uring requests after de_thread() made it the only thread in the thread-group. Now io_uring_task_cancel() runs task work after. If it runs a create_worker_cb() item then a io-wq queued on the thread before the exec creates a new io-wq worker thread. Said thread joins the thread-group which de_thread() just took down. The io-iwq sticks around until it notices that its workqueue is dying. But code after de_thread() relies on being single-threaded. Move io_uring_task_cancel() before de_thread() but behind the point of no return. Any worker created during task work run from io_uring_task_cancel() is just a sibling thread that de_thread() will take down and reap. Once io_uring_task_cancel() returned the thread has neither a task context nor a workqueue left so nothing can add a thread behind de_thread()'s back anymore. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aq0_lvHDViIpX_Mu@redhat.com Fixes: 3bfe6106693b ("io-wq: fork worker threads from original task") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921-work-coredump-fixes-v3-12-8e4adb1619e6@kernel.org Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/exec.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1145,6 +1145,13 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * */ bprm->point_of_no_return = true; + /* + * Cancel any io_uring activity across execve. This runs task work + * that may still create an io-wq worker, so do it while de_thread() + * can still zap it. + */ + io_uring_task_cancel(); + /* Make this the only thread in the thread group */ retval = de_thread(me); if (retval) @@ -1161,10 +1168,6 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * /* see the comment in check_unsafe_exec() */ current->fs->in_exec = 0; - /* - * Cancel any io_uring activity across execve - */ - io_uring_task_cancel(); /* Ensure the files table is not shared. */ retval = unshare_files();