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-rw-r--r--ipc/sem.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index 4a92c0447ad..e20658d76bb 100644
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -257,12 +257,20 @@ static void sem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
* Caller must own sem_perm.lock.
* New simple ops cannot start, because simple ops first check
* that sem_perm.lock is free.
+ * that a) sem_perm.lock is free and b) complex_count is 0.
*/
static void sem_wait_array(struct sem_array *sma)
{
int i;
struct sem *sem;
+ if (sma->complex_count) {
+ /* The thread that increased sma->complex_count waited on
+ * all sem->lock locks. Thus we don't need to wait again.
+ */
+ return;
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < sma->sem_nsems; i++) {
sem = sma->sem_base + i;
spin_unlock_wait(&sem->lock);