[PATCH] rt-mutex: Fix chain walk early wakeup bug

Alexey Kuznetsov found some problems in the pi-futex code.

One of the root causes is:

When a wakeup happens, we do not to stop the chain walk so we
we follow a non existing locking chain.

Drop out when this happens.

Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex.c b/kernel/rtmutex.c
index 9b08847b8f7fbafee13dd2c2ef797b128ec4bbef..dd5feae636d3961dedf2f15f1946b1cded3942b8 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex.c
@@ -212,6 +212,19 @@ static int rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(struct task_struct *task,
        if (!waiter || !waiter->task)
                goto out_unlock_pi;
 
+       /*
+        * Check the orig_waiter state. After we dropped the locks,
+        * the previous owner of the lock might have released the lock
+        * and made us the pending owner:
+        */
+       if (orig_waiter && !orig_waiter->task)
+               goto out_unlock_pi;
+
+       /*
+        * Drop out, when the task has no waiters. Note,
+        * top_waiter can be NULL, when we are in the deboosting
+        * mode!
+        */
        if (top_waiter && (!task_has_pi_waiters(task) ||
                           top_waiter != task_top_pi_waiter(task)))
                goto out_unlock_pi;