diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index 827e60ae4909..6859438c4e09 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -5863,7 +5863,7 @@ static int io_try_cancel_userdata(struct io_kiocb *req, u64 sqe_addr)
 	struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = req->ctx;
 	int ret;
 
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(req->task != current);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!io_wq_current_is_worker() && req->task != current);
 
 	ret = io_async_cancel_one(req->task->io_uring, sqe_addr, ctx);
 	if (ret != -ENOENT)
@@ -6369,6 +6369,7 @@ static void io_wq_submit_work(struct io_wq_work *work)
 	if (timeout)
 		io_queue_linked_timeout(timeout);
 
+	/* either cancelled or io-wq is dying, so don't touch tctx->iowq */
 	if (work->flags & IO_WQ_WORK_CANCEL)
 		ret = -ECANCELED;
 
@@ -9184,8 +9185,8 @@ static void io_uring_clean_tctx(struct io_uring_task *tctx)
 		 * Must be after io_uring_del_task_file() (removes nodes under
 		 * uring_lock) to avoid race with io_uring_try_cancel_iowq().
 		 */
-		tctx->io_wq = NULL;
 		io_wq_put_and_exit(wq);
+		tctx->io_wq = NULL;
 	}
 }