[PATCH] pi-futex: Fix exit races and locking problems

1. New entries can be added to tsk->pi_state_list after task completed
   exit_pi_state_list(). The result is memory leakage and deadlocks.

2. handle_mm_fault() is called under spinlock. The result is obvious.

3. results in self-inflicted deadlock inside glibc.
   Sometimes futex_lock_pi returns -ESRCH, when it is not expected
   and glibc enters to for(;;) sleep() to simulate deadlock. This problem
   is quite obvious and I think the patch is right. Though it looks like
   each "if" in futex_lock_pi() got some stupid special case "else if". :-)

4. sometimes futex_lock_pi() returns -EDEADLK,
   when nobody has the lock. The reason is also obvious (see comment
   in the patch), but correct fix is far beyond my comprehension.
   I guess someone already saw this, the chunk:

                        if (rt_mutex_trylock(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex))
                                ret = 0;

   is obviously from the same opera. But it does not work, because the
   rtmutex is really taken at this point: wake_futex_pi() of previous
   owner reassigned it to us. My fix works. But it looks very stupid.
   I would think about removal of shift of ownership in wake_futex_pi()
   and making all the work in context of process taking lock.

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Fix 1) Avoid the tasklist lock variant of the exit race fix by adding
    an additional state transition to the exit code.

    This fixes also the issue, when a task with recursive segfaults
    is not able to release the futexes.

Fix 2) Cleanup the lookup_pi_state() failure path and solve the -ESRCH
    problem finally.

Fix 3) Solve the fixup_pi_state_owner() problem which needs to do the fixup
    in the lock protected section by using the in_atomic userspace access
    functions.

    This removes also the ugly lock drop / unqueue inside of fixup_pi_state()

Fix 4) Fix a stale lock in the error path of futex_wake_pi()

Added some error checks for verification.

The -EDEADLK problem is solved by the rtmutex fixups.

Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index fec12eb12471..d30684568193 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -883,13 +883,29 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 	if (unlikely(tsk->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
 		printk(KERN_ALERT
 			"Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!\n");
+		/*
+		 * We can do this unlocked here. The futex code uses
+		 * this flag just to verify whether the pi state
+		 * cleanup has been done or not. In the worst case it
+		 * loops once more. We pretend that the cleanup was
+		 * done as there is no way to return. Either the
+		 * OWNER_DIED bit is set by now or we push the blocked
+		 * task into the wait for ever nirwana as well.
+		 */
+		tsk->flags |= PF_EXITPIDONE;
 		if (tsk->io_context)
 			exit_io_context();
 		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 		schedule();
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * tsk->flags are checked in the futex code to protect against
+	 * an exiting task cleaning up the robust pi futexes.
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
 	tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
 
 	if (unlikely(in_atomic()))
 		printk(KERN_INFO "note: %s[%d] exited with preempt_count %d\n",
@@ -956,6 +972,12 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 	 * Make sure we are holding no locks:
 	 */
 	debug_check_no_locks_held(tsk);
+	/*
+	 * We can do this unlocked here. The futex code uses this flag
+	 * just to verify whether the pi state cleanup has been done
+	 * or not. In the worst case it loops once more.
+	 */
+	tsk->flags |= PF_EXITPIDONE;
 
 	if (tsk->io_context)
 		exit_io_context();