diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index edb00ae2619b4039a47a22b2c9ab5456b45cc713..87f8655656b55d3435e6b0b0ff2cb906e5a6985a 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -5070,7 +5070,8 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 			 * reap events and wake us up.
 			 */
 			if (inflight ||
-			    (!time_after(jiffies, timeout) && ret != -EBUSY)) {
+			    (!time_after(jiffies, timeout) && ret != -EBUSY &&
+			    !percpu_ref_is_dying(&ctx->refs))) {
 				cond_resched();
 				continue;
 			}
@@ -6324,6 +6325,16 @@ static void io_ring_ctx_wait_and_kill(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 	percpu_ref_kill(&ctx->refs);
 	mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * Wait for sq thread to idle, if we have one. It won't spin on new
+	 * work after we've killed the ctx ref above. This is important to do
+	 * before we cancel existing commands, as the thread could otherwise
+	 * be queueing new work post that. If that's work we need to cancel,
+	 * it could cause shutdown to hang.
+	 */
+	while (ctx->sqo_thread && !wq_has_sleeper(&ctx->sqo_wait))
+		cpu_relax();
+
 	io_kill_timeouts(ctx);
 	io_poll_remove_all(ctx);