From: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>

commit 3f186d974826847a07bc7964d79ec4eded475ad9 upstream.

The mutex will be used in subsequent changes to replace the busy looping of
a waiter when the futex owner is currently executing the exit cleanup to
prevent a potential live lock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.845798...@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/futex.h |    1 +
 include/linux/sched.h |    1 +
 kernel/futex.c        |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/futex.h
+++ b/include/linux/futex.h
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static inline void futex_init_task(struc
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tsk->pi_state_list);
        tsk->pi_state_cache = NULL;
        tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_OK;
+       mutex_init(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex);
 }
 
 void futex_exit_recursive(struct task_struct *tsk);
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1704,6 +1704,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 #endif
        struct list_head pi_state_list;
        struct futex_pi_state *pi_state_cache;
+       struct mutex futex_exit_mutex;
        unsigned int futex_state;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -3271,12 +3271,23 @@ static void futex_cleanup(struct task_st
  */
 void futex_exit_recursive(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+       /* If the state is FUTEX_STATE_EXITING then futex_exit_mutex is held */
+       if (tsk->futex_state == FUTEX_STATE_EXITING)
+               mutex_unlock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex);
        tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_DEAD;
 }
 
 static void futex_cleanup_begin(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
        /*
+        * Prevent various race issues against a concurrent incoming waiter
+        * including live locks by forcing the waiter to block on
+        * tsk->futex_exit_mutex when it observes FUTEX_STATE_EXITING in
+        * attach_to_pi_owner().
+        */
+       mutex_lock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex);
+
+       /*
         * Switch the state to FUTEX_STATE_EXITING under tsk->pi_lock.
         *
         * This ensures that all subsequent checks of tsk->futex_state in
@@ -3299,6 +3310,11 @@ static void futex_cleanup_end(struct tas
         * take another loop until it becomes visible.
         */
        tsk->futex_state = state;
+       /*
+        * Drop the exit protection. This unblocks waiters which observed
+        * FUTEX_STATE_EXITING to reevaluate the state.
+        */
+       mutex_unlock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex);
 }
 
 void futex_exec_release(struct task_struct *tsk)


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