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From: Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	"Zijlstra, Peter" <peter.zijlstra@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Subject: Re: Robust futexes: lost wakeups and design flaws in the glibc/kernel synchronization scheme
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:25:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1484346315.5606.313.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484213984.5606.272.camel@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 10:39 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 17:01 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> > === Robust mutexes have bugs, in both glibc and the kernel
> > 
> > I've been reviewing the implementation of robust mutexes in both glibc
> > and the kernel support code recently because there are several bug
> > reports, for example:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401665
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19402
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14485
> > 
> > This review revealed a bunch of bugs.  I have committed/proposed patches
> > that fix all glibc-only bugs that I am aware of:
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00587.html
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00862.html
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00863.html
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00947.html

These patches are now all committed to glibc master.  Thus, you can
start fixing/testing now and have a high probability that you won't run
into glibc bugs.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-13 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-24 16:01 Robust futexes: lost wakeups and design flaws in the glibc/kernel synchronization scheme Torvald Riegel
2017-01-12  9:39 ` Torvald Riegel
2017-01-13 22:25   ` Torvald Riegel [this message]

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