Re: [tip:locking/core] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Apr 05 2017 - 04:10:35 EST


locking/rtmutex: Fix preempt leak in __rt_mutex_futex_unlock()

mark_wakeup_next_waiter() already disables preemption, doing so
again leaves us with an unpaired preempt_disable().

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1581,13 +1581,13 @@ bool __sched __rt_mutex_futex_unlock(str
return false; /* done */
}

- mark_wakeup_next_waiter(wake_q, lock);
/*
- * We've already deboosted, retain preempt_disabled when dropping
- * the wait_lock to avoid inversion until the wakeup. Matched
- * by rt_mutex_postunlock();
+ * We've already deboosted, mark_wakeup_next_waiter() will
+ * retain preempt_disabled when we drop the wait_lock, to
+ * avoid inversion prior to the wakeup. preempt_disable()
+ * therein pairs with rt_mutex_postunlock().
*/
- preempt_disable();
+ mark_wakeup_next_waiter(wake_q, lock);

return true; /* call postunlock() */
}