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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-11-07 00:55:42 +0300
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-11-20 11:40:09 +0300
commit4a8e991b91aca9e20705d434677ac013974e0e30 (patch)
tree3d829eff03ee942cfcf4af2f3bb324e500732742 /kernel/futex.c
parent18f694385c4fd77a09851fd301236746ca83f3cb (diff)
downloadlinux-4a8e991b91aca9e20705d434677ac013974e0e30.tar.xz
futex: Sanitize exit state handling
Instead of having a smp_mb() and an empty lock/unlock of task::pi_lock move the state setting into to the lock section. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.645603214@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/futex.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c17
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 3488fb024a20..f618562b4f5f 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -3703,16 +3703,19 @@ void futex_exit_recursive(struct task_struct *tsk)
void futex_exit_release(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
- tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_EXITING;
- /*
- * Ensure that all new tsk->pi_lock acquisitions must observe
- * FUTEX_STATE_EXITING. Serializes against attach_to_pi_owner().
- */
- smp_mb();
/*
- * Ensure that we must observe the pi_state in exit_pi_state_list().
+ * Switch the state to FUTEX_STATE_EXITING under tsk->pi_lock.
+ *
+ * This ensures that all subsequent checks of tsk->futex_state in
+ * attach_to_pi_owner() must observe FUTEX_STATE_EXITING with
+ * tsk->pi_lock held.
+ *
+ * It guarantees also that a pi_state which was queued right before
+ * the state change under tsk->pi_lock by a concurrent waiter must
+ * be observed in exit_pi_state_list().
*/
raw_spin_lock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
+ tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_EXITING;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
futex_exec_release(tsk);