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author | john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> | 2007-08-22 17:01:10 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-08-22 22:52:44 -0400 |
commit | 187226f57f1381cfc63216979b4375f30e593795 (patch) | |
tree | 0bda40993e1794363bf6570614584b03f1de55e9 | |
parent | 42b88e6ad4014d290d6b59dfeb5d6949c5a3f346 (diff) |
futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock
Avoid futex_unlock_pi returning -EFAULT (which results in deadlock), by
clearing uval before jumping to retry_locked.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 3415e9ad1391..e8935b195e88 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c | |||
@@ -1670,6 +1670,7 @@ pi_faulted: | |||
1670 | attempt); | 1670 | attempt); |
1671 | if (ret) | 1671 | if (ret) |
1672 | goto out; | 1672 | goto out; |
1673 | uval = 0; | ||
1673 | goto retry_unlocked; | 1674 | goto retry_unlocked; |
1674 | } | 1675 | } |
1675 | 1676 | ||