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authorMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>2010-01-23 22:36:29 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-02-03 15:13:22 +0100
commit5ecb01cfdf96c5f465192bdb2a4fd4a61a24c6cc (patch)
tree718e04a92a89352dd39193f8a2e08d657d80914e /kernel/futex.c
parentsoftlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume (diff)
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futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
This fixes a futex key reference count bug in futex_lock_pi(), where a key's reference count is incremented twice but decremented only once, causing the backing object to not be released. If the futex is created in a temporary file in an ext3 file system, this bug causes the file's inode to become an "undead" orphan, which causes an oops from a BUG_ON() in ext3_put_super() when the file system is unmounted. glibc's test suite is known to trigger this, see <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14256>. The bug is a regression from 2.6.28-git3, namely Peter Zijlstra's 38d47c1b7075bd7ec3881141bb3629da58f88dab "[PATCH] futex: rely on get_user_pages() for shared futexes". That commit made get_futex_key() also increment the reference count of the futex key, and updated its callers to decrement the key's reference count before returning. Unfortunately the normal exit path in futex_lock_pi() wasn't corrected: the reference count is incremented by get_futex_key() and queue_lock(), but the normal exit path only decrements once, via unqueue_me_pi(). The fix is to put_futex_key() after unqueue_me_pi(), since 2.6.31 this is easily done by 'goto out_put_key' rather than 'goto out'. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index d9b3a2228f9d..17828033a639 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@ retry_private:
/* Unqueue and drop the lock */
unqueue_me_pi(&q);
- goto out;
+ goto out_put_key;
out_unlock_put_key:
queue_unlock(&q, hb);