[PATCH] futex: bugfix for robust futex deadlock when waking only one threadin handle_futex_death

From: zhang . yi20
Date: Mon Apr 15 2013 - 23:03:24 EST


From: Zhang Yi <zhang.yi20@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

The function handle_futex_death just wakes one thread, which may be not
enough when the owner process is dead. Think about this scene:
1. A robust futex is shared for two processes, each process has multi
threads try to get the lock.
2. One of the threads gets the lock, and the others are waiting and sorted

in order of priority.
3. The process to which the lock owner thread belongs is dying,and
handle_futex_death is called to wake the first waiter
4. When the first waiter belongs to the same process,it has no chance to
return to the userspace to get the lock and will not call
handle_futex_death any
more,and then the rest threads of the other process will never be waked,
and
will block forever.

This patch wakes all the waiters when lock owner is in group-exit, letting

all the waiters return to userspace and try to get the lock again.


Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <zhang.yi20@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ma Chenggong <ma.chenggong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Liu Dong <liu.dong3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Cui Yunfeng <cui.yunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lu Zhongjun <lu.zhongjun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@xxxxxxxxxx>


--- orig/linux-3.9-rc7/kernel/futex.c 2013-04-15 00:45:16.000000000
+0000
+++ new/linux-3.9-rc7/kernel/futex.c 2013-04-16 10:17:46.264597000
+0000
@@ -2545,8 +2545,11 @@ retry:
* Wake robust non-PI futexes here. The wakeup of
* PI futexes happens in exit_pi_state():
*/
- if (!pi && (uval & FUTEX_WAITERS))
- futex_wake(uaddr, 1, 1, FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY);
+ if (!pi && (uval & FUTEX_WAITERS)) {
+ int nr = signal_group_exit(current->signal)
+ ? INT_MAX : 1;
+ futex_wake(uaddr, 1, nr, FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY);
+ }
}
return 0;
}

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