From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756519AbbCPOQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:16:16 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55067 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753062AbbCPOQL (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:16:11 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH 3.19 116/177] locking/rtmutex: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference on deadlock Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:08:43 +0100 Message-Id: <20150316140818.356244294@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.3.3 In-Reply-To: <20150316140813.085032723@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150316140813.085032723@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior commit 8d1e5a1a1ccf5ae9d8a5a0ee7960202ccb0c5429 upstream. With task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() returning early -EDEADLK we never add the waiter to the waitqueue. Later, we try to remove it via remove_waiter() and go boom in rt_mutex_top_waiter() because rb_entry() gives a NULL pointer. ( Tested on v3.18-RT where rtmutex is used for regular mutex and I tried to get one twice in a row. ) Not sure when this started but I guess 397335f004f4 ("rtmutex: Fix deadlock detector for real") or commit 3d5c9340d194 ("rtmutex: Handle deadlock detection smarter"). Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424187823-19600-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c @@ -1193,7 +1193,8 @@ rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); if (unlikely(ret)) { - remove_waiter(lock, &waiter); + if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock)) + remove_waiter(lock, &waiter); rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(ret, chwalk, &waiter); }