diff --git a/io_uring/kbuf.c b/io_uring/kbuf.c
index 3cd29477fff2..b6b969b55e12 100644
--- a/io_uring/kbuf.c
+++ b/io_uring/kbuf.c
@@ -287,8 +287,6 @@ static int io_ring_buffers_peek(struct io_kiocb *req, struct buf_sel_arg *arg,
 		iov = kmalloc_objs(struct iovec, nr_avail);
 		if (unlikely(!iov))
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		if (arg->mode & KBUF_MODE_FREE)
-			kfree(arg->iovs);
 		arg->iovs = iov;
 		nr_iovs = nr_avail;
 	} else if (nr_avail < nr_iovs) {
@@ -330,6 +328,9 @@ static int io_ring_buffers_peek(struct io_kiocb *req, struct buf_sel_arg *arg,
 		buf = io_ring_head_to_buf(br, ++head, bl->mask);
 	} while (--nr_iovs);
 
+	if (arg->mode & KBUF_MODE_FREE)
+		kfree(arg->iovs);
+
 	if (head == tail)
 		req->flags |= REQ_F_BL_EMPTY;
 
diff --git a/io_uring/memmap.c b/io_uring/memmap.c
index da1f6c5d07f8..23e8a85111bc 100644
--- a/io_uring/memmap.c
+++ b/io_uring/memmap.c
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ unsigned long io_uring_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr,
 
 	ptr = io_uring_validate_mmap_request(filp, pgoff);
 	if (IS_ERR(ptr))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return PTR_ERR(ptr);
 
 	/*
 	 * Some architectures have strong cache aliasing requirements.
diff --git a/io_uring/msg_ring.c b/io_uring/msg_ring.c
index 3ff9098573db..3067c9343991 100644
--- a/io_uring/msg_ring.c
+++ b/io_uring/msg_ring.c
@@ -93,19 +93,38 @@ static void io_msg_remote_post(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_kiocb *req,
 	io_req_task_work_add_remote(req, IOU_F_TWQ_LAZY_WAKE);
 }
 
+static int io_msg_ring_cqe_flags(struct io_ring_ctx *target_ctx,
+				 const struct io_msg *msg, u32 *flags)
+{
+	*flags = 0;
+
+	if (!(msg->flags & IORING_MSG_RING_FLAGS_PASS))
+		return 0;
+
+	*flags = msg->cqe_flags;
+	if ((*flags & IORING_CQE_F_32) &&
+	    !(target_ctx->flags & (IORING_SETUP_CQE32 |
+				   IORING_SETUP_CQE_MIXED)))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int io_msg_data_remote(struct io_ring_ctx *target_ctx,
 			      struct io_msg *msg)
 {
 	struct io_kiocb *target;
-	u32 flags = 0;
+	u32 flags;
+	int ret;
 
-	target = kmem_cache_alloc(req_cachep, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ZERO)  ;
+	ret = io_msg_ring_cqe_flags(target_ctx, msg, &flags);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	target = kmem_cache_alloc(req_cachep, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ZERO);
 	if (unlikely(!target))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (msg->flags & IORING_MSG_RING_FLAGS_PASS)
-		flags = msg->cqe_flags;
-
 	io_msg_remote_post(target_ctx, target, msg->len, flags, msg->user_data);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -130,8 +149,9 @@ static int __io_msg_ring_data(struct io_ring_ctx *target_ctx,
 	if (io_msg_need_remote(target_ctx))
 		return io_msg_data_remote(target_ctx, msg);
 
-	if (msg->flags & IORING_MSG_RING_FLAGS_PASS)
-		flags = msg->cqe_flags;
+	ret = io_msg_ring_cqe_flags(target_ctx, msg, &flags);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = -EOVERFLOW;
 	if (target_ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL) {
diff --git a/io_uring/tw.c b/io_uring/tw.c
index a4c872870d81..e6ee15571e85 100644
--- a/io_uring/tw.c
+++ b/io_uring/tw.c
@@ -139,11 +139,11 @@ void tctx_task_work(struct callback_head *cb)
  */
 static void io_ctx_mark_taskrun(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 {
-	if (ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_TASKRUN_FLAG) {
-		struct io_rings *rings;
+	lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock();
+
+	if (ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_TASKRUN_FLAG) {
+		struct io_rings *rings = rcu_dereference(ctx->rings_rcu);
 
-		guard(rcu)();
-		rings = rcu_dereference(ctx->rings_rcu);
 		atomic_or(IORING_SQ_TASKRUN, &rings->sq_flags);
 	}
 }
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ void io_req_local_work_add(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned flags)
 	struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = req->ctx;
 	int nr_wait;
 
+	/* pairs with synchronize_rcu() in io_ring_exit_work() */
+	guard(rcu)();
+
 	/*
 	 * We don't know how many requests there are in the link and whether
 	 * they can even be queued lazily, fall back to non-lazy.
diff --git a/io_uring/uring_cmd.c b/io_uring/uring_cmd.c
index 7b25dcd9d05f..c14c22cff49e 100644
--- a/io_uring/uring_cmd.c
+++ b/io_uring/uring_cmd.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static void io_uring_cmd_del_cancelable(struct io_uring_cmd *cmd,
 }
 
 /*
- * Mark this command as concelable, then io_uring_try_cancel_uring_cmd()
+ * Mark this command as cancelable, then io_uring_try_cancel_uring_cmd()
  * will try to cancel this issued command by sending ->uring_cmd() with
  * issue_flags of IO_URING_F_CANCEL.
  *
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ void __io_uring_cmd_done(struct io_uring_cmd *ioucmd, s32 ret, u64 res2,
 	}
 	io_req_uring_cleanup(req, issue_flags);
 	if (req->flags & REQ_F_IOPOLL) {
-		/* order with io_iopoll_req_issued() checking ->iopoll_complete */
+		/* order with io_do_iopoll() checking ->iopoll_completed */
 		smp_store_release(&req->iopoll_completed, 1);
 	} else if (issue_flags & IO_URING_F_COMPLETE_DEFER) {
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(issue_flags & IO_URING_F_UNLOCKED))