[PATCH 4.9 057/240] Revert 337f13046ff0 ("futex: Allow FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME with FUTEX_WAIT op")

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-20T11:07:03Z

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

commit 4fbf5d6837bf81fd7a27d771358f4ee6c4f243f8 upstream.

The FUTEX_WAIT operand has historically a relative timeout which means that
the clock id is irrelevant as relative timeouts on CLOCK_REALTIME are not
subject to wall clock changes and therefore are mapped by the kernel to
CLOCK_MONOTONIC for simplicity.

If a caller would set FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME for FUTEX_WAIT the timeout is
still treated relative vs. CLOCK_MONOTONIC and then the wait arms that
timeout based on CLOCK_REALTIME which is broken and obviously has never
been used or even tested.

Reject any attempt to use FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME with FUTEX_WAIT again.

The desired functionality can be achieved with FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET and a
FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY argument.

Fixes: 337f13046ff0 ("futex: Allow FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME with FUTEX_WAIT op")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210422194704.834797921@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/futex.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -3860,8 +3860,7 @@ long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op,

if (op & FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME) {
flags |= FLAGS_CLOCKRT;
- if (cmd != FUTEX_WAIT && cmd != FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET && \
- cmd != FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI)
+ if (cmd != FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET && cmd != FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI)
return -ENOSYS;
}