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author | Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> | 2007-06-08 16:47:00 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-08 20:23:34 -0400 |
commit | 778e9a9c3e7193ea9f434f382947155ffb59c755 (patch) | |
tree | 2ceb8c7ce1d55124982b77966dcd65cee5cc623b /include/linux | |
parent | 1a539a87280b3032fd12bc93a4a82f1d8aa97ca8 (diff) |
pi-futex: fix exit races and locking problems
1. New entries can be added to tsk->pi_state_list after task completed
exit_pi_state_list(). The result is memory leakage and deadlocks.
2. handle_mm_fault() is called under spinlock. The result is obvious.
3. results in self-inflicted deadlock inside glibc.
Sometimes futex_lock_pi returns -ESRCH, when it is not expected
and glibc enters to for(;;) sleep() to simulate deadlock. This problem
is quite obvious and I think the patch is right. Though it looks like
each "if" in futex_lock_pi() got some stupid special case "else if". :-)
4. sometimes futex_lock_pi() returns -EDEADLK,
when nobody has the lock. The reason is also obvious (see comment
in the patch), but correct fix is far beyond my comprehension.
I guess someone already saw this, the chunk:
if (rt_mutex_trylock(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex))
ret = 0;
is obviously from the same opera. But it does not work, because the
rtmutex is really taken at this point: wake_futex_pi() of previous
owner reassigned it to us. My fix works. But it looks very stupid.
I would think about removal of shift of ownership in wake_futex_pi()
and making all the work in context of process taking lock.
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fix 1) Avoid the tasklist lock variant of the exit race fix by adding
an additional state transition to the exit code.
This fixes also the issue, when a task with recursive segfaults
is not able to release the futexes.
Fix 2) Cleanup the lookup_pi_state() failure path and solve the -ESRCH
problem finally.
Fix 3) Solve the fixup_pi_state_owner() problem which needs to do the fixup
in the lock protected section by using the in_atomic userspace access
functions.
This removes also the ugly lock drop / unqueue inside of fixup_pi_state()
Fix 4) Fix a stale lock in the error path of futex_wake_pi()
Added some error checks for verification.
The -EDEADLK problem is solved by the rtmutex fixups.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index d58e74b98367..693f0e6c54d4 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h | |||
@@ -1162,6 +1162,7 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t) | |||
1162 | /* Not implemented yet, only for 486*/ | 1162 | /* Not implemented yet, only for 486*/ |
1163 | #define PF_STARTING 0x00000002 /* being created */ | 1163 | #define PF_STARTING 0x00000002 /* being created */ |
1164 | #define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */ | 1164 | #define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */ |
1165 | #define PF_EXITPIDONE 0x00000008 /* pi exit done on shut down */ | ||
1165 | #define PF_FORKNOEXEC 0x00000040 /* forked but didn't exec */ | 1166 | #define PF_FORKNOEXEC 0x00000040 /* forked but didn't exec */ |
1166 | #define PF_SUPERPRIV 0x00000100 /* used super-user privileges */ | 1167 | #define PF_SUPERPRIV 0x00000100 /* used super-user privileges */ |
1167 | #define PF_DUMPCORE 0x00000200 /* dumped core */ | 1168 | #define PF_DUMPCORE 0x00000200 /* dumped core */ |