commit e6db6f9398dadcbc06318a133d4c44a2d3844e61 upstream. We have two types of task_work based creation, one is using an existing worker to setup a new one (eg when going to sleep and we have no free workers), and the other is allocating a new worker. Only the latter should be freed when we cancel task_work creation for a new worker. Fixes: af82425c6a2d ("io_uring/io-wq: free worker if task_work creation is canceled") Reported-by: syzbot+d56ec896af3637bdb7e4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>