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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-12-19 20:07:38 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-02-25 11:57:49 -0800
commita895706740ceaac0c7f99ddc48e05c40cb21c361 (patch)
tree0f40e4fa05f9e16c614b6962a80457571a92d4dd /kernel
parent4800af91229e06e9d8517a6961f5b5d304b7e9bf (diff)
futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex
commit fb75a4282d0d9a3c7c44d940582c2d226cf3acfb upstream. If the proxy lock in the requeue loop acquires the rtmutex for a waiter then it acquired also refcount on the pi_state related to the futex, but the waiter side does not drop the reference count. Add the missing free_pi_state() call. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Bhuvanesh_Surachari@mentor.com Cc: Andy Lowe <Andy_Lowe@mentor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151219200607.178132067@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 4d919452c908..edc4beae4df1 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2494,6 +2494,11 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags,
if (q.pi_state && (q.pi_state->owner != current)) {
spin_lock(q.lock_ptr);
ret = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr2, &q, current);
+ /*
+ * Drop the reference to the pi state which
+ * the requeue_pi() code acquired for us.
+ */
+ free_pi_state(q.pi_state);
spin_unlock(q.lock_ptr);
}
} else {