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* [tip/urgent] Avoid deadlock in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
@ 2009-08-05 19:05 Darren Hart
  2009-08-06  3:51 ` [tip:core/urgent] rtmutex: " tip-bot for Darren Hart
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Darren Hart @ 2009-08-05 19:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml, , Thomas Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra, Steven Rostedt,
	Ingo Molnar, Dinakar Guniguntala, John Stultz

From: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>

In the event of a lock steal or owner died, rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() will
give the rt_mutex to the waiting task, but it fails to release the wait_lock.
This leads to subsequent deadlocks when other tasks try to acquire the
rt_mutex.

I also removed a few extra blank lines that really spaced this routine out.
I must have been high on the \n when I wrote this originally...

Note: This is the mainline version, a separate patch was sent for [RT]

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
CC: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
---

 kernel/rtmutex.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex.c b/kernel/rtmutex.c
index fec77e7..0f2b9bb 100644
--- a/kernel/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex.c
@@ -1039,16 +1039,14 @@ int rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 	if (!rt_mutex_owner(lock) || try_to_steal_lock(lock, task)) {
 		/* We got the lock for task. */
 		debug_rt_mutex_lock(lock);
-
 		rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, task, 0);
-
+		spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
 		rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, task);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
 	ret = task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(lock, waiter, task, detect_deadlock);
 
-
 	if (ret && !waiter->task) {
 		/*
 		 * Reset the return value. We might have
-- 
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team

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