On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Zheng Yejian wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>
> commit a97cb0e7b3f4c6297fd857055ae8e895f402f501 upstream.
>
> Both Geert and DaveJ reported that the recent futex commit:
>
> c1e2f0eaf015 ("futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex")
>
> introduced a problem with setting OWNER_DEAD. We set the bit on an
> uninitialized variable and then entirely optimize it away as a
> dead-store.
>
> Move the setting of the bit to where it is more useful.
>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <da...@codemonkey.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Fixes: c1e2f0eaf015 ("futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex")
> Link:
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180122103947.gd2...@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyeji...@huawei.com>
> ---
> kernel/futex.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
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