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Subject[tip:locking/core] futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex
Commit-ID:  fb75a4282d0d9a3c7c44d940582c2d226cf3acfb
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fb75a4282d0d9a3c7c44d940582c2d226cf3acfb
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
AuthorDate: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:07:38 +0000
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:43:24 +0100

futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex

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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Bhuvanesh_Surachari@mentor.com
Cc: Andy Lowe <Andy_Lowe@mentor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151219200607.178132067@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
kernel/futex.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 684d754..24fbc77 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2755,6 +2755,11 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags,
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 {

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