From: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: alpha: fix 32/64-bit bug in futex support
Michael Cree said:
: : I have noticed some user space problems (pulseaudio crashes in pthread
: : code, glibc/nptl test suite failures, java compiler freezes on SMP alpha
: : systems) that arise when using a 2.6.39 or later kernel on Alpha.
: : Bisecting between 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 (using glibc/nptl test suite as
: : criterion for good/bad kernel) eventually leads to:
: :
: : 8d7718aa082aaf30a0b4989e1f04858952f941bc is the first bad commit
: : commit 8d7718aa082aaf30a0b4989e1f04858952f941bc
: : Author: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com>
: : Date: Thu Mar 10 18:50:58 2011 -0800
: :
: : futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
: :
: : Change futex_atomic_op_inuser and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
: : prototypes to use u32 types for the futex as this is the data type the
: : futex core code uses all over the place.
: :
: : Looking at the commit I see there is a change of the uaddr argument in
: : the Alpha architecture specific code for futexes from int to u32, but I
: : don't see why this should cause a problem.
Richard Henderson said:
: futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
: u32 oldval, u32 newval)
: ...
: : "r"(uaddr), "r"((long)oldval), "r"(newval)
:
:
: There is no 32-bit compare instruction. These are implemented by
: consistently extending the values to a 64-bit type. Since the
: load instruction sign-extends, we want to sign-extend the other
: quantity as well (despite the fact it's logically unsigned).
:
: So:
:
: - : "r"(uaddr), "r"((long)oldval), "r"(newval)
: + : "r"(uaddr), "r"((long)(int)oldval), "r"(newval)
:
: should do the trick.
Michael said:
: This fixes the glibc test suite failures and the pulseaudio related
: crashes, but it does not fix the java compiiler lockups that I was (and
: are still) observing. That is some other problem.
Reported-by: Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz>
Tested-by: Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz>
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carm...@nokia.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <i...@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN
arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h~alpha-fix-32-64-bit-bug-in-futex-support
arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h~alpha-fix-32-64-bit-bug-in-futex-support
+++ a/arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval,
" lda $31,3b-2b(%0)\n"
" .previous\n"
: "+r"(ret), "=&r"(prev), "=&r"(cmp)
- : "r"(uaddr), "r"((long)oldval), "r"(newval)
+ : "r"(uaddr), "r"((long)(int)oldval), "r"(newval)
: "memory");
*uval = prev;
_
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