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* [PATCH] io_uring/waitid: fix KCSAN warning on io_waitid->head
@ 2026-01-20  2:56 Jens Axboe
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From: Jens Axboe @ 2026-01-20  2:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Storing of the iw->head entry inside the wait_queue callback, or when
removing a waitid item, really should use proper load/store
acquire/release semantics, and KCSAN correctly warns of that. Ensure
that they do so.

Reported-by: syzbot+eb441775f4f948a0902f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: a48c0cbf28c0 ("io_uring/waitid: have io_waitid_complete() remove wait queue entry")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

---

Introduced in 6.19, queued in io_uring-6.19.

diff --git a/io_uring/waitid.c b/io_uring/waitid.c
index 2d4cbd47c67c..d25d60aed6af 100644
--- a/io_uring/waitid.c
+++ b/io_uring/waitid.c
@@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ static void io_waitid_remove_wq(struct io_kiocb *req)
 	struct io_waitid *iw = io_kiocb_to_cmd(req, struct io_waitid);
 	struct wait_queue_head *head;
 
-	head = READ_ONCE(iw->head);
+	head = smp_load_acquire(&iw->head);
 	if (head) {
 		struct io_waitid_async *iwa = req->async_data;
 
-		iw->head = NULL;
+		smp_store_release(&iw->head, NULL);
 		spin_lock_irq(&head->lock);
 		list_del_init(&iwa->wo.child_wait.entry);
 		spin_unlock_irq(&head->lock);
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int io_waitid_wait(struct wait_queue_entry *wait, unsigned mode,
 		return 0;
 
 	list_del_init(&wait->entry);
-	iw->head = NULL;
+	smp_store_release(&iw->head, NULL);
 
 	/* cancel is in progress */
 	if (atomic_fetch_inc(&iw->refs) & IO_WAITID_REF_MASK)

-- 
Jens Axboe


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