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Commit c74aef2d authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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futex: Fix pi_state->owner serialization



There was a reported suspicion about a race between exit_pi_state_list()
and put_pi_state(). The same report mentioned the comment with
put_pi_state() said it should be called with hb->lock held, and it no
longer is in all places.

As it turns out, the pi_state->owner serialization is indeed broken. As per
the new rules:

  734009e9 ("futex: Change locking rules")

pi_state->owner should be serialized by pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock.
For the sites setting pi_state->owner we already hold wait_lock (where
required) but exit_pi_state_list() and put_pi_state() were not and
raced on clearing it.

Fixes: 734009e9 ("futex: Change locking rules")
Reported-by: default avatarGratian Crisan <gratian.crisan@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170922154806.jd3ffltfk24m4o4y@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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