[PATCH 1/1] futex: check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads

[Oleg Nesterov]

attach_to_pi_owner() checks p->mm to prevent attaching to kthreads and
this looks doubly wrong:

1. It should actually check PF_KTHREAD, kthread can do use_mm().

2. If this task is not kthread and it is actually the lock owner we can
   wrongly return -EPERM instead of -ESRCH or retry-if-EAGAIN.

   And note that this wrong EPERM is the likely case unless the exiting
   task is (auto)reaped quickly, we check ->mm before PF_EXITING.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/futex.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 63678b5..b101381 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
 	if (!p)
 		return -ESRCH;
 
-	if (!p->mm) {
+	if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
 		put_task_struct(p);
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
-- 
1.5.5.1


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