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Peter Zijlstra committed c74aef2d06a
futex: Fix pi_state->owner serialization There was a reported suspicion about a race between exit_pi_state_list() and put_pi_state(). The same report mentioned the comment with put_pi_state() said it should be called with hb->lock held, and it no longer is in all places. As it turns out, the pi_state->owner serialization is indeed broken. As per the new rules: 734009e96d19 ("futex: Change locking rules") pi_state->owner should be serialized by pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock. For the sites setting pi_state->owner we already hold wait_lock (where required) but exit_pi_state_list() and put_pi_state() were not and raced on clearing it. Fixes: 734009e96d19 ("futex: Change locking rules") Reported-by: Gratian Crisan <gratian.crisan@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dvhart@infradead.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170922154806.jd3ffltfk24m4o4y@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net