Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | [PATCH] futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a barrier | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:38:49 +0100 |
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Commit b0c29f79ecea (futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's nothing to wake up) changes the futex code to avoid taking a lock when there are no waiters. This code has been subsequently fixed in commit 11d4616bd07f (futex: revert back to the explicit waiter counting code). Both the original commit and the fix-up rely on get_futex_key_refs() to always imply a barrier.
However, for private futexes, none of the cases in the switch statement of get_futex_key_refs() would be hit and the function completes without a memory barrier as required before checking the "waiters" in futex_wake() -> hb_waiters_pending(). The consequence is a race with a thread waiting on a futex on another CPU, allowing the waker thread to read "waiters == 0" while the waiter thread to have read "futex_val == locked" (in kernel).
Without this fix, the problem (user space deadlocks) can be seen with Android bionic's mutex implementation on an arm64 multi-cluster system.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Matteo Franchin <Matteo.Franchin@arm.com> Fixes: b0c29f79ecea (futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's nothing to wake up) Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- kernel/futex.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 815d7af2ffe8..f3a3a071283c 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -343,6 +343,8 @@ static void get_futex_key_refs(union futex_key *key) case FUT_OFF_MMSHARED: futex_get_mm(key); /* implies MB (B) */ break; + default: + smp_mb(); /* explicit MB (B) */ } }
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