From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Subject: [-rt potential bug?] Bad error path in futex_wake
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 19:12:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147745550.10707.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Hey Ingo,
I've been trying to help Dinakar chase down a futex bug where
lookup_pi_state oopses due to this->pi_state being NULL
(kernel/futex.c:480).
No clue on why yet, but looking over the code, I noticed the following
odd error path:
static int futex_wake(u32 __user *uaddr, int nr_wake)
{
[snip]
down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, &key);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out;
hb = hash_futex(&key);
spin_lock(&hb->lock);
head = &hb->chain;
list_for_each_entry_safe(this, next, head, list) {
if (match_futex (&this->key, &key)) {
if (this->pi_state)
!!!!------> return -EINVAL;
wake_futex(this);
if (++ret >= nr_wake)
break;
}
}
spin_unlock(&hb->lock);
out:
up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
return ret;
}
I'm not very familiar w/ the futex code, so this might be the right
thing, but it sure looks wrong.
Thoughts?
thanks
-john
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