[PATCH 3.14 79/98] um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Jan 25 2015 - 14:11:57 EST


3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

commit f911d731054ab3d82ee72a16b889e17ca3a2332a upstream.

futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() does not work on UML because
it triggers a copy_from_user() in kernel context.
On UML copy_from_user() can only be used if the kernel was called
by a real user space process such that UML can use ptrace()
to fetch the value.

Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Tested-by: Daniel Walter <d.walter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/um/Kconfig.common | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/um/Kconfig.common
+++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.common
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ config UML
bool
default y
select HAVE_UID16
+ select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG if FUTEX
select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
select GENERIC_IO


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