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Subject[GIT pull] futex fixes for 2.6.37
Linus,

Please pull the latest core-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git core-fixes-for-linus

That fix didn't make 36.

Thanks,

tglx

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Darren Hart (1):
futex: Fix errors in nested key ref-counting


kernel/futex.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 6a3a5fa..e328f57 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1363,7 +1363,6 @@ static inline struct futex_hash_bucket *queue_lock(struct futex_q *q)
{
struct futex_hash_bucket *hb;

- get_futex_key_refs(&q->key);
hb = hash_futex(&q->key);
q->lock_ptr = &hb->lock;

@@ -1375,7 +1374,6 @@ static inline void
queue_unlock(struct futex_q *q, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb)
{
spin_unlock(&hb->lock);
- drop_futex_key_refs(&q->key);
}

/**
@@ -1480,8 +1478,6 @@ static void unqueue_me_pi(struct futex_q *q)
q->pi_state = NULL;

spin_unlock(q->lock_ptr);
-
- drop_futex_key_refs(&q->key);
}

/*
@@ -1812,7 +1808,10 @@ static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
}

retry:
- /* Prepare to wait on uaddr. */
+ /*
+ * Prepare to wait on uaddr. On success, holds hb lock and increments
+ * q.key refs.
+ */
ret = futex_wait_setup(uaddr, val, fshared, &q, &hb);
if (ret)
goto out;
@@ -1822,24 +1821,23 @@ retry:

/* If we were woken (and unqueued), we succeeded, whatever. */
ret = 0;
+ /* unqueue_me() drops q.key ref */
if (!unqueue_me(&q))
- goto out_put_key;
+ goto out;
ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
if (to && !to->task)
- goto out_put_key;
+ goto out;

/*
* We expect signal_pending(current), but we might be the
* victim of a spurious wakeup as well.
*/
- if (!signal_pending(current)) {
- put_futex_key(fshared, &q.key);
+ if (!signal_pending(current))
goto retry;
- }

ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
if (!abs_time)
- goto out_put_key;
+ goto out;

restart = &current_thread_info()->restart_block;
restart->fn = futex_wait_restart;
@@ -1856,8 +1854,6 @@ retry:

ret = -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;

-out_put_key:
- put_futex_key(fshared, &q.key);
out:
if (to) {
hrtimer_cancel(&to->timer);
@@ -2236,7 +2232,10 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
q.rt_waiter = &rt_waiter;
q.requeue_pi_key = &key2;

- /* Prepare to wait on uaddr. */
+ /*
+ * Prepare to wait on uaddr. On success, increments q.key (key1) ref
+ * count.
+ */
ret = futex_wait_setup(uaddr, val, fshared, &q, &hb);
if (ret)
goto out_key2;
@@ -2254,7 +2253,9 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
* In order for us to be here, we know our q.key == key2, and since
* we took the hb->lock above, we also know that futex_requeue() has
* completed and we no longer have to concern ourselves with a wakeup
- * race with the atomic proxy lock acquition by the requeue code.
+ * race with the atomic proxy lock acquisition by the requeue code. The
+ * futex_requeue dropped our key1 reference and incremented our key2
+ * reference count.
*/

/* Check if the requeue code acquired the second futex for us. */

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