Re: problematic rc9 futex changes.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 23 2018 - 03:33:09 EST


On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:34:46AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> c1e2f0eaf015fb: "futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex" seems to
> make up a few new rules to violate.
>
> Coverity picked up these two problems in the same code:
>

Yeah, Geert also spotted it:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180122103947.GD2228@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I've been running the robustpi tests from glibc but have so far failed
to actually trigger the bug. I think I'll just write up a Changelog and
post the fix from the above link.