Commit a374cc63 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner

futex: Fix locking imbalance

Rich reported a lock imbalance in the futex code.
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14288)

It's caused by the displacement of the retry_private label in
futex_wake_op(). The code unlocks the hash bucket locks in the error
handling path and retries without locking them again which makes the
next unlock fail.

Move retry_private so we lock the hash bucket locks when we retry.
Reported-by: default avatarRich Ercolany <rercola@acm.jhu.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable-2.6.31 <stable@kernel.org>
parent f0f43646
......@@ -959,8 +959,8 @@ retry:
hb1 = hash_futex(&key1);
hb2 = hash_futex(&key2);
double_lock_hb(hb1, hb2);
retry_private:
double_lock_hb(hb1, hb2);
op_ret = futex_atomic_op_inuser(op, uaddr2);
if (unlikely(op_ret < 0)) {
......
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