From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:48:51 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.39-rc1~512^2~4
X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=37a9d912b24f96a0591773e6e6c3642991ae5a70;p=pandora-kernel.git

futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API

The cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API was funny in that it returned either
the original, user-exposed futex value OR an error code such as -EFAULT.
This was confusing at best, and could be a source of livelocks in places
that retry the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked after trying to fix the issue
by running fault_in_user_writeable().

This change makes the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API more similar to the
get_futex_value_locked one, returning an error code and updating the
original value through a reference argument.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>  [tile]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>  [ia64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>  [microblaze]
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [frv]
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311024851.GC26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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