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From: Kirill Reshke <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: io_uring: Fix danger of completion getting reused before being read
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:53:56 +0500
Message-ID: <CALdSSPgLT1PP5hzqr1o+fGV_HjMSThvPsSSPiGOeLBwUaWO1eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 20:38, Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I privately got a report about a bug in method_io_uring.c:
>
> We are calling io_uring_cqe_seen(..., cqe) before reading cqe->res. That
> allows the completion to be reused, which in turn could lead to cqe->res being
> overwritten. The window for that is very narrow and the likelihood of it
> happening is very low, as we should never actually utilize all CQEs, but the
> consequences would be bad.
>
> I plan to push the fix soon-ish.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund

I see this is already committed as 807764990. Just pointing in case
somebody wants to review.


-- 
Best regards,
Kirill Reshke






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