[PATCH 3.18 176/183] um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-01-25T18:12:05Z

From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

commit f911d731054ab3d82ee72a16b889e17ca3a2332a upstream.

futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() does not work on UML because
it triggers a copy_from_user() in kernel context.
On UML copy_from_user() can only be used if the kernel was called
by a real user space process such that UML can use ptrace()
to fetch the value.

Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Tested-by: Daniel Walter <d.walter@0x90.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/um/Kconfig.common | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/um/Kconfig.common
+++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.common
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config UML
default y
select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
select HAVE_UID16
+ select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG if FUTEX
select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
select GENERIC_IO