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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2021-02-01 15:12:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-02-03 23:16:16 +0100 |
| commit | 26f05b30e97d3bc30a20b52719d726f062539807 (patch) | |
| tree | 88166ba1811e68b2f239319d4c9acda5348fd6e7 | |
| parent | 39947bfd796393ab623ecb3374d6507d398a0113 (diff) | |
futex: Add mutex around futex exit
commit 3f186d974826847a07bc7964d79ec4eded475ad9 upstream.
The mutex will be used in subsequent changes to replace the busy looping of
a waiter when the futex owner is currently executing the exit cleanup to
prevent a potential live lock.
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/20191106224556.845798895@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/futex.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 16 |
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/futex.h b/include/linux/futex.h index 805508373fce..0f294ae63c78 100644 --- a/include/linux/futex.h +++ b/include/linux/futex.h @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static inline void futex_init_task(struct task_struct *tsk) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tsk->pi_state_list); tsk->pi_state_cache = NULL; tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_OK; + mutex_init(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex); } void futex_exit_recursive(struct task_struct *tsk); diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index aba34bba5e9e..8c10e97f94fe 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1704,6 +1704,7 @@ struct task_struct { #endif struct list_head pi_state_list; struct futex_pi_state *pi_state_cache; + struct mutex futex_exit_mutex; unsigned int futex_state; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index feef5ce071aa..d21b151216aa 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -3271,12 +3271,23 @@ static void futex_cleanup(struct task_struct *tsk) */ void futex_exit_recursive(struct task_struct *tsk) { + /* If the state is FUTEX_STATE_EXITING then futex_exit_mutex is held */ + if (tsk->futex_state == FUTEX_STATE_EXITING) + mutex_unlock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex); tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_DEAD; } static void futex_cleanup_begin(struct task_struct *tsk) { /* + * Prevent various race issues against a concurrent incoming waiter + * including live locks by forcing the waiter to block on + * tsk->futex_exit_mutex when it observes FUTEX_STATE_EXITING in + * attach_to_pi_owner(). + */ + mutex_lock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex); + + /* * Switch the state to FUTEX_STATE_EXITING under tsk->pi_lock. * * This ensures that all subsequent checks of tsk->futex_state in @@ -3299,6 +3310,11 @@ static void futex_cleanup_end(struct task_struct *tsk, int state) * take another loop until it becomes visible. */ tsk->futex_state = state; + /* + * Drop the exit protection. This unblocks waiters which observed + * FUTEX_STATE_EXITING to reevaluate the state. + */ + mutex_unlock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex); } void futex_exec_release(struct task_struct *tsk) |