Patch "futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     futex-fix-owner_dead-fixup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a97cb0e7b3f4c6297fd857055ae8e895f402f501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:39:47 +0100
Subject: futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@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 <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: c1e2f0eaf015 ("futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180122103947.GD2228@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/futex.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2311,9 +2311,6 @@ static int fixup_pi_state_owner(u32 __us
 	raw_spin_lock_irq(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
 
 	oldowner = pi_state->owner;
-	/* Owner died? */
-	if (!pi_state->owner)
-		newtid |= FUTEX_OWNER_DIED;
 
 	/*
 	 * We are here because either:
@@ -2374,6 +2371,9 @@ retry:
 	}
 
 	newtid = task_pid_vnr(newowner) | FUTEX_WAITERS;
+	/* Owner died? */
+	if (!pi_state->owner)
+		newtid |= FUTEX_OWNER_DIED;
 
 	if (get_futex_value_locked(&uval, uaddr))
 		goto handle_fault;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are

queue-4.14/futex-fix-owner_dead-fixup.patch