Commit 3855271
futex: Handle transient "ownerless" rtmutex state correctly
commit 9f5d1c336a10c0d24e83e40b4c1b9539f7dba627 upstream.
Gratian managed to trigger the BUG_ON(!newowner) in fixup_pi_state_owner().
This is one possible chain of events leading to this:
Task Prio Operation
T1 120 lock(F)
T2 120 lock(F) -> blocks (top waiter)
T3 50 (RT) lock(F) -> boosts T1 and blocks (new top waiter)
XX timeout/ -> wakes T2
signal
T1 50 unlock(F) -> wakes T3 (rtmutex->owner == NULL, waiter bit is set)
T2 120 cleanup -> try_to_take_mutex() fails because T3 is the top waiter
and the lower priority T2 cannot steal the lock.
-> fixup_pi_state_owner() sees newowner == NULL -> BUG_ON()
The comment states that this is invalid and rt_mutex_real_owner() must
return a non NULL owner when the trylock failed, but in case of a queued
and woken up waiter rt_mutex_real_owner() == NULL is a valid transient
state. The higher priority waiter has simply not yet managed to take over
the rtmutex.
The BUG_ON() is therefore wrong and this is just another retry condition in
fixup_pi_state_owner().
Drop the locks, so that T3 can make progress, and then try the fixup again.
Gratian provided a great analysis, traces and a reproducer. The analysis is
to the point, but it confused the hell out of that tglx dude who had to
page in all the futex horrors again. Condensed version is above.
[ tglx: Wrote comment and changelog ]
Fixes: c1e2f0eaf015 ("futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex")
Reported-by: Gratian Crisan <gratian.crisan@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87a6w6x7bb.fsf@ni.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87sg9pkvf7.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>1 parent cec1580 commit 3855271
1 file changed
+14
-2
lines changed| Original file line number | Diff line number | Diff line change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
2497 | 2497 | | |
2498 | 2498 | | |
2499 | 2499 | | |
2500 | | - | |
| 2500 | + | |
| 2501 | + | |
2501 | 2502 | | |
2502 | 2503 | | |
2503 | | - | |
| 2504 | + | |
| 2505 | + | |
| 2506 | + | |
| 2507 | + | |
| 2508 | + | |
| 2509 | + | |
| 2510 | + | |
| 2511 | + | |
| 2512 | + | |
| 2513 | + | |
| 2514 | + | |
| 2515 | + | |
2504 | 2516 | | |
2505 | 2517 | | |
2506 | 2518 | | |
| |||
0 commit comments