futex: unlock before returning -EFAULT
authorDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:56:06 +0000 (00:56 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:20:57 +0000 (11:20 +0100)
Impact: rt-mutex failure case fix

futex_lock_pi can potentially return -EFAULT with the rt_mutex
held.  This seems like the wrong thing to do as userspace should
assume -EFAULT means the lock was not taken.  Even if it could
figure this out, we'd be leaving the pi_state->owner in an
inconsistent state.  This patch unlocks the rt_mutex prior to
returning -EFAULT to userspace.

Build and boot tested on a 4 way Intel x86_64 workstation.
Passes basic pthread_mutex and PI tests out of
ltp/testcases/realtime.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075606.9856.88729.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/futex.c

index 6579912..c980a55 100644 (file)
@@ -1567,6 +1567,13 @@ retry_locked:
                }
        }
 
+       /*
+        * If fixup_pi_state_owner() faulted and was unable to handle the
+        * fault, unlock it and return the fault to userspace.
+        */
+       if (ret && (rt_mutex_owner(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex) == current))
+               rt_mutex_unlock(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex);
+
        /* Unqueue and drop the lock */
        unqueue_me_pi(&q);