If the waiter has been requeued to the outer PI futex and is
interrupted by a signal and the thread handles the signal then
ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK is changed to EINTR and the restart block is
discarded. That way we return an unexcpected EINTR to user space
instead of ending up in futex_lock_pi_restart.
But we do not need to restart the syscall because we know that the
condition has changed since we have been requeued. If we would simply
restart the syscall then we would drop out via the comparison of the
user space value with EWOULDBLOCK.
The user space side needs to handle EWOULDBLOCK anyway as the
enqueueing on the inner futex can race with a requeue/wake. So we can
simply return EWOULDBLOCK to user space which also signals that we did
not take the outer futex and let user space handle it in the same way
it has to handle the requeue/wake race.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The futex_wait_requeue_pi op should restart unconditionally like
futex_lock_pi. The user of that function e.g. pthread_cond_wait can
not be interrupted so we do not care about the SA_RESTART flag of the
signal. Clean up the FIXMEs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Merge reason: this branch was on an pre -rc1 base, merge it up to -rc6+
to get the latest upstream fixes.
Conflicts:
kernel/futex.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The futex code installs a read only mapping via get_user_pages_fast()
even if the futex op function has to modify user space data. The
eventual fault was fixed up by futex_handle_fault() which walked the
VMA with mmap_sem held.
After the cleanup patches which removed the mmap_sem dependency of the
futex code commit 4dc5b7a36a49eff97050894cf1b3a9a02523717 (futex:
clean up fault logic) removed the private VMA walk logic from the
futex code. This change results in a stale RO mapping which is not
fixed up.
Instead of reintroducing the previous fault logic we set up the
mapping in get_user_pages_fast() read/write for all operations which
modify user space data. Also handle private futexes in the same way
and make the current unconditional access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE) depend on
the futex op.
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
The waitqueue which is used in struct futex_q is a leftover from the
futexfd implementation. There is no need to use a waitqueue at all, as
the waiting task is the only user of it. The waitqueue just adds
additional locking and a loop in the wake up path which both can be
avoided.
We have already a task reference in struct futex_q which is used for
PI futexes. Use it for normal futexes as well and just wake up the
task directly.
The logic of signalling the futex wakeup via setting q->lock_ptr to
NULL is kept with the difference that we set it NULL before doing the
wakeup. This opens an exit race window vs. a non futex wake up of the
to be woken up task, which we prevent with get_task_struct /
put_task_struct on the waiter.
[ Impact: simplification ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The new requeue PI futex op codes were modeled after the existing
FUTEX_REQUEUE and FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE calls. I was unaware at the time
that FUTEX_REQUEUE was only around for compatibility reasons and
shouldn't be used in new code. Ulrich Drepper elaborates on this in his
Futexes are Tricky paper: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/futex.pdf.
The deprecated call doesn't catch changes to the futex corresponding to
the destination futex which can lead to deadlock.
Therefor, I feel it best to remove FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI and leave only
FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI as there are not yet any existing users of the API.
This patch does change the OP code value of FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI to 12
from 13. Since my test case is the only known user of this API, I felt
this was the right thing to do, rather than leave a hole in the
enumeration.
I chose to continue using the _CMP_ modifier in the OP code to make it
explicit to the user that the test is being done.
Builds, boots, and ran several hundred iterations requeue_pi.c.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <49ED580E.1050502@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
If the get_futex_key() call were to fail, the existing code would
try and put_futex_key() prior to returning. This patch makes sure
we only put_futex_key() if get_futex_key() succeeded.
Reported-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090410165005.14342.16973.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thomas's testing caught a problem when the requeue target futex is
unowned and multiple tasks are requeued to it. This patch ensures
the FUTEX_WAITERS bit gets set if futex_requeue() will requeue one
or more tasks in addition to the one acquiring the lock.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
PI Futexes and their underlying rt_mutex cannot be left ownerless if
there are pending waiters as this will break the PI boosting logic, so
the standard requeue commands aren't sufficient. The new commands
properly manage pi futex ownership by ensuring a futex with waiters
has an owner at all times. This will allow glibc to properly handle
pi mutexes with pthread_condvars.
The approach taken here is to create two new futex op codes:
FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI:
Tasks will use this op code to wait on a futex (such as a non-pi waitqueue)
and wake after they have been requeued to a pi futex. Prior to returning to
userspace, they will acquire this pi futex (and the underlying rt_mutex).
futex_wait_requeue_pi() is the result of a high speed collision between
futex_wait() and futex_lock_pi() (with the first part of futex_lock_pi() being
done by futex_proxy_trylock_atomic() on behalf of the top_waiter).
FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI (and FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI):
This call must be used to wake tasks waiting with FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI,
regardless of how many tasks the caller intends to wake or requeue.
pthread_cond_broadcast() should call this with nr_wake=1 and
nr_requeue=INT_MAX. pthread_cond_signal() should call this with nr_wake=1 and
nr_requeue=0. The reason being we need both callers to get the benefit of the
futex_proxy_trylock_atomic() routine. futex_requeue() also enqueues the
top_waiter on the rt_mutex via rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock().
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Refactor the code to validate the expected futex value in order to
reuse it with the requeue_pi code.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
futex_requeue() is getting a bit long-winded, and will be getting more
so after the requeue_pi patch. Factor out the actual requeueing into a
nicely contained inline function to reduce function length and improve
legibility.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Currently restart is only used if there is a timeout. The requeue_pi
functionality requires restarting to futex_lock_pi() on signal after
wakeup in futex_wait_requeue_pi() regardless of if there was a timeout
or not. Using 0 for the timeout value is confusing as that could
indicate an expired timer. The flag makes this explicit. While the
check is not technically needed in futex_wait_restart(), doing so
makes the code consistent with and will avoid confusion should the
need arise to restart wait without a timeout.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Refactor the post lock acquisition logic from futex_lock_pi(). This
code will be reused in futex_wait_requeue_pi().
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Refactor the atomic portion of futex_lock_pi() into futex_lock_pi_atomic().
This logic will be needed by requeue_pi, so modularize it to reduce
code duplication. The only significant change is passing of the task
to try and take the lock for. This simplifies the -EDEADLK test as if
the lock is owned by task t, it's a deadlock, regardless of if we are
doing requeue pi or not. This patch updates the corresponding comment
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Improve legibility by wrapping finding the top waiter in a function.
This will be used by the follow-on patches for enabling requeue pi.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Refactor futex_wait() in preparation for futex_wait_requeue_pi(). In
order to reuse a good chunk of the futex_wait() code for the upcoming
futex_wait_requeue_pi() function, this patch breaks out the
queue-to-wakeup section of futex_wait() into futex_wait_queue_me().
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We've tripped over the futex_requeue drop_count refering to key2
instead of key1. The code is actually correct, but is non-intuitive.
This patch adds an explicit comment explaining the requeue.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix double unlock crash
Thomas Gleixner noticed that the simplified double_unlock_hb()
became ... too unsophisticated: in the hb1 == hb2 case it will
do a double unlock.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090312221118.11146.68610.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: simplify code
I mistakenly included the pointer value ordering in the
double_unlock_hb() in my previous patch. It's only necessary
in the double_lock_hb() function. This patch removes it.
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: <20090312221118.11146.68610.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Older versions of the futex code held the mmap_sem which had to
be dropped in order to call get_user(), so a two-pronged fault
handling mechanism was employed to handle faults of the atomic
operations. The mmap_sem is no longer held, so get_user()
should be adequate. This patch greatly simplifies the logic and
improves legibility.
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: <20090312075612.9856.48612.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
RT tasks should set their timer slack to 0 on their own. This
patch removes the 'if (rt_task()) slack = 0;' block in
futex_wait.
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>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075559.9856.28822.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The futex code uses double_lock_hb() which locks the hb->lock's
in pointer value order. There is no parallel unlock routine,
and the code unlocks them in name order, ignoring pointer value.
This patch adds double_unlock_hb() to refactor the duplicated
code segments.
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: <20090312075552.9856.48021.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix races
futex_requeue and futex_lock_pi still had some bad
(get|put)_futex_key() usage. This patch adds the missing
put_futex_keys() and corrects a goto in futex_lock_pi() to avoid
a double get.
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: <20090312075545.9856.75152.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The futex_hash_bucket can be a bit confusing when first looking
at the code as it is a shared queue (and futex_q isn't a queue
at all, but rather an element on the queue).
The mmap_sem is no longer held outside of the
futex_handle_fault() routine, yet numerous comments refer to it.
The fshared argument is no an integer. I left some of these
comments along as they are simply removed in future patches.
Some of the commentary refering to futexes by virtual page
mappings was not very clear, and completely accurate (as for
shared futexes both the page and the offset are used to
determine the key). For the purposes of the function
description, just referring to "the futex" seems sufficient.
With hashed futexes we now access the page after the hash-bucket
is locked, and not only after it is enqueued.
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: <20090312075537.9856.29954.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Catalin noticed that (38d47c1b70: futex: rely on get_user_pages() for
shared futexes) caused an mm_struct leak.
Some tracing with the function graph tracer quickly pointed out that
futex_wait() has exit paths with unbalanced reference counts.
This regression was discovered by kmemleak.
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add debug check
Following up on my previous key reference accounting patches, this patch
will catch puts on keys that haven't been "got". This won't catch nested
get/put mismatches though.
Build and boot tested, with minimal desktop activity and a run of the
open_posix_testsuite in LTP for testing. No warnings logged.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits)
stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
"Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping
x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion
x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit
x86: add swiotlb allocation functions
swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions
swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
swiotlb: move some definitions to header
swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
include/linux/hardirq.h
as per Ingo's suggestions.
Impact: cleanup
This patch makes the calls to futex_get_key_refs() and futex_drop_key_refs()
explicitly symmetric by only "putting" keys we successfully "got". Also
cleanup a couple return points that didn't "put" after a successful "get".
Build and boot tested on an x86_64 system.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Some apparently left over cruft code was complicating the fault logic:
Testing if uval != -EFAULT doesn't have any meaning, get_user() sets ret
to either 0 or -EFAULT, there's no need to compare uval, especially not
against EFAULT which it will never be. This patch removes the superfluous
test and clarifies the comment blocks.
Build and boot tested on an 8way x86_64 system.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: simplify code
I've tripped over the naming of this field a couple times.
The futex_q uses a "waiters" list to represent a single blocked task and
then calles wake_up_all().
This can lead to confusion in trying to understand the intent of the code,
which is to have a single futex_q for every task waiting on a futex.
This patch corrects the problem, using a single pointer to the waiting
task, and an appropriate call to wake_up, rather than wake_up_all.
Compile and boot tested on an 8way x86_64 machine.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET could be used instead of FUTEX_WAIT by setting the
bit set to FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY, but FUTEX_WAIT uses CLOCK_REALTIME
while FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Add a flag to select CLOCK_REALTIME for FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET so glibc can
replace the FUTEX_WAIT logic which needs to do gettimeofday() calls
before and after the syscall to convert the absolute timeout to a
relative timeout for FUTEX_WAIT.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.
Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.
With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.
Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
With the get_user_pages_fast() patches we made get_futex_key() obtain a
reference on the returned key, but failed to do so for private futexes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fshared doesn't need to be a rw_sem pointer anymore, so clean that up.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change the get_user_pages() call with fast_gup() which doesn't require holding
the mmap_sem thereby removing the mmap_sem from all fast paths.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
now that we rely on get_user_pages() for the shared key handling
move all the mmap_sem stuff closely around the slow paths.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On the way of getting rid of the mmap_sem requirement for shared futexes,
start by relying on get_user_pages().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch makes the futex() system call use the per process
slack value; with this users are able to externally control existing
applications to reduce the wakeup rate.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions
to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct.
This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
This patch addresses a very sporadic pi-futex related failure in
highly threaded java apps on large SMP systems.
David Holmes reported that the pi_state consistency check in
lookup_pi_state triggered with his test application. This means that
the kernel internal pi_state and the user space futex variable are out
of sync. First we assumed that this is a user space data corruption,
but deeper investigation revieled that the problem happend because the
pi-futex code is not handling a fault in the futex_lock_pi path when
the user space variable needs to be fixed up.
The fault happens when a fork mapped the anon memory which contains
the futex readonly for COW or the page got swapped out exactly between
the unlock of the futex and the return of either the new futex owner
or the task which was the expected owner but failed to acquire the
kernel internal rtmutex. The current futex_lock_pi() code drops out
with an inconsistent in case it faults and returns -EFAULT to user
space. User space has no way to fixup that state.
When we wrote this code we thought that we could not drop the hash
bucket lock at this point to handle the fault.
After analysing the code again it turned out to be wrong because there
are only two tasks involved which might modify the pi_state and the
user space variable:
- the task which acquired the rtmutex
- the pending owner of the pi_state which did not get the rtmutex
Both tasks drop into the fixup_pi_state() function before returning to
user space. The first task which acquired the hash bucket lock faults
in the fixup of the user space variable, drops the spinlock and calls
futex_handle_fault() to fault in the page. Now the second task could
acquire the hash bucket lock and tries to fixup the user space
variable as well. It either faults as well or it succeeds because the
first task already faulted the page in.
One caveat is to avoid a double fixup. After returning from the fault
handling we reacquire the hash bucket lock and check whether the
pi_state owner has been modified already.
Reported-by: David Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/futex.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
Since FUTEX_FD was scheduled for removal in June 2007 lets remove it.
Google Code search found no users for it and NGPT was abandoned in 2003
according to IBM. futex.h is left untouched to make sure the id does
not get reassigned. Since queue_me() has no users left it is commented
out to avoid a warning, i didnt remove it completely since it is part of
the internal api (matching unqueue_me())
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed rest)
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hrtimers have now dynamic users in the network code. Put them under
debugobjects surveillance as well.
Add calls to the generic object debugging infrastructure and provide fixup
functions which allow to keep the system alive when recoverable problems have
been detected by the object debugging core code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
