[PATCH V2] futex: Fix handling of bad requeue syscall pairing

From: Darren Hart
Date: Fri Aug 07 2009 - 18:21:07 EST


From: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx>

If futex_requeue(requeue_pi=1) finds a futex_q that was created by a call
other the futex_wait_requeue_pi(), the q.rt_waiter may be null. If so,
this will result in an oops from the following call graph:

futex_requeue()
rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
waiter->task dereference
OOPS

We currently WARN_ON() if this is detected, clearly this is inadequate.
If we detect a mispairing in futex_requeue(), bail out, seding -EINVAL to
user-space.

V2: Fix parenthesis warnings.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

kernel/futex.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index df30983..4705d89 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1306,8 +1306,15 @@ retry_private:
if (!match_futex(&this->key, &key1))
continue;

- WARN_ON(!requeue_pi && this->rt_waiter);
- WARN_ON(requeue_pi && !this->rt_waiter);
+ /*
+ * FUTEX_WAIT_REQEUE_PI and FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI should always
+ * be paired with each other and no other futex ops.
+ */
+ if ((requeue_pi && !this->rt_waiter) ||
+ (!requeue_pi && this->rt_waiter)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }

/*
* Wake nr_wake waiters. For requeue_pi, if we acquired the
--
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team
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