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That path only\nflips the entry to FRRS_USERSPACE and completes the io_uring cmd;\nit never discharges the ring entry's owning reference to the\nfuse_req that fuse_uring_add_req_to_ring_ent() handed it at\ndispatch time.\n\n fuse_uring_send_in_task()\n tw.cancel == true\n err = -ECANCELED\n fuse_uring_send(ent, cmd, err, issue_flags)\n ent->state = FRRS_USERSPACE\n list_move(&ent->list, &queue->ent_in_userspace)\n ent->cmd = NULL\n io_uring_cmd_done(-ECANCELED)\n /* ent->fuse_req still set, req still hashed */\n\nThe fuse_req stays linked on fpq->processing[hash] and\nfuse_request_end() is never invoked. The originating syscall\nthread blocks in D-state in request_wait_answer() until\nfuse_abort_conn() runs, which can be the entire connection\nlifetime. For FR_BACKGROUND requests fc->num_background is never\ndecremented either, so repeated cancels inflate the counter until\nmax_background is hit and all later background ops stall. tw.cancel does\nnot imply a connection abort (e.g. a single io_uring worker thread exits\nwhile the fuse connection stays up), so this cannot be left for\nfuse_abort_conn() to clean up.\n\nEnding the req but still routing the entry through fuse_uring_send()\nis not enough: that leaves a req-less entry on ent_in_userspace, and\nent_list_request_expired() dereferences ent->fuse_req unconditionally\non the head of that list, which would then NULL-deref.\n\nFix the cancel branch to release the entry directly. 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