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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:core/futexes] futex: remove the pointer math from double_unlock_hb, fix
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:36:28 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-88f502fedba82eff252b6420e8b8328e4ae25c67@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090312221118.11146.68610.stgit@Aeon>

Commit-ID:  88f502fedba82eff252b6420e8b8328e4ae25c67
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/88f502fedba82eff252b6420e8b8328e4ae25c67
Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:32:07 +0100
Commit:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:32:07 +0100

futex: remove the pointer math from double_unlock_hb, fix

Impact: fix double unlock crash

Thomas Gleixner noticed that the simplified double_unlock_hb()
became ... too unsophisticated: in the hb1 == hb2 case it will
do a double unlock.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090312221118.11146.68610.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 kernel/futex.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 2331b73..6b50a02 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -659,7 +659,8 @@ static inline void
 double_unlock_hb(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb1, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb2)
 {
 	spin_unlock(&hb1->lock);
-	spin_unlock(&hb2->lock);
+	if (hb1 != hb2)
+		spin_unlock(&hb2->lock);
 }
 
 /*

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12 22:11 [PATCH] futex: remove the pointer math from double_unlock_hb Darren Hart
2009-03-13  0:18 ` [tip:core/futexes] " Darren Hart
2009-03-13  9:26 ` [PATCH] " Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-13  9:36 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-13 15:03   ` [tip:core/futexes] futex: remove the pointer math from double_unlock_hb, fix Darren Hart

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