If the proxy lock in the requeue loop acquires the rtmutex for a waiter then it acquired also refcount on the pi_state related to the futex, but the waiter side does not drop the reference count. Add the missing free_pi_state() call. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/futex.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -2755,6 +2755,11 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __u if (q.pi_state && (q.pi_state->owner != current)) { spin_lock(q.lock_ptr); ret = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr2, &q, current); + /* + * Drop the reference to the pi state which + * the requeue_pi() code acquired for us. + */ + free_pi_state(q.pi_state); spin_unlock(q.lock_ptr); } } else {