Thomas spotted that fixup_pi_state_owner() can return errors and we fail to unlock the rt_mutex in that case. Reviewed-by: Darren Hart Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- kernel/futex.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -2896,6 +2896,8 @@ 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); + if (ret && rt_mutex_owner(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex) == current) + rt_mutex_unlock(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex); /* * Drop the reference to the pi state which * the requeue_pi() code acquired for us.