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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] add missing memory barriers to ipc/sem.c
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:57:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AC80E5.6050906@colorfullife.com> (raw)

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Hi Linus,

Two smp_wmb() statements are missing in the sysv sem code: This could 
cause stack corruptions.
The attached patch adds them.

Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

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--- 2.6/ipc/sem.c	2005-12-19 01:36:54.000000000 +0100
+++ build-2.6/ipc/sem.c	2005-12-23 23:25:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@
 			/* hands-off: q will disappear immediately after
 			 * writing q->status.
 			 */
+			smb_wmb();
 			q->status = error;
 			q = n;
 		} else {
@@ -461,6 +462,7 @@
 		n = q->next;
 		q->status = IN_WAKEUP;
 		wake_up_process(q->sleeper); /* doesn't sleep */
+		smp_wmb();
 		q->status = -EIDRM;	/* hands-off q */
 		q = n;
 	}

             reply	other threads:[~2005-12-23 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-23 22:57 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2005-12-24 11:38 ` [PATCH] add missing memory barriers to ipc/sem.c Thomas Backlund

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