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From: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <sashal@kernel.org>,
	<tglx@linutronix.de>, <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: <nixiaoming@huawei.com>, <wangle6@huawei.com>, <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9.258] futex: fix dead code in attach_to_pi_owner()
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:09:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210224100923.51315-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com> (raw)

The handle_exit_race() function is defined in commit 9c3f39860367
 ("futex: Cure exit race"), which never returns -EBUSY. This results
in a small piece of dead code in the attach_to_pi_owner() function:

	int ret = handle_exit_race(uaddr, uval, p); /* Never return -EBUSY */
	...
	if (ret == -EBUSY)
		*exiting = p; /* dead code */

The return value -EBUSY is added to handle_exit_race() in upsteam
commit ac31c7ff8624409 ("futex: Provide distinct return value when
owner is exiting"). This commit was incorporated into v4.9.255, before
the function handle_exit_race() was introduced, whitout Modify
handle_exit_race().

To fix dead code, extract the change of handle_exit_race() from
commit ac31c7ff8624409 ("futex: Provide distinct return value when owner
 is exiting"), re-incorporated.

Fixes: 9c3f39860367 ("futex: Cure exit race")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9.258
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index b65dbb5d60bb..0fd785410150 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1207,11 +1207,11 @@ static int handle_exit_race(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval,
 	u32 uval2;
 
 	/*
-	 * If the futex exit state is not yet FUTEX_STATE_DEAD, wait
-	 * for it to finish.
+	 * If the futex exit state is not yet FUTEX_STATE_DEAD, tell the
+	 * caller that the alleged owner is busy.
 	 */
 	if (tsk && tsk->futex_state != FUTEX_STATE_DEAD)
-		return -EAGAIN;
+		return -EBUSY;
 
 	/*
 	 * Reread the user space value to handle the following situation:
-- 
2.27.0


             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-24 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-24 10:09 Xiaoming Ni [this message]
2021-02-25  9:17 ` [PATCH 4.9.258] futex: fix dead code in attach_to_pi_owner() Lee Jones
2021-03-01 14:19   ` Greg KH

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