[patch 0/5] futex: More robustness tweaks

[Thomas Gleixner]

While looking for the minimal functional fix for the futex CVE, I
found a few things which can be done simpler and therefor make the
code more robust.

1) UNLOCK_PI

   Change the ordering:
   
   - Lookup waiters first. If waiters exist wake up the top priority
     waiter with all sanity checks applied. That allows us to catch
     manipulation of the user space value.

   - Only if there are no waiters, do the atomic release

2) futex_lock_pi_atomic()

   Its a maze of retry hoops and loops. Reduce it to simple and
   userstandable states.

   That requires to split out the lookup and validation functions from
   lookup_pi_state(), but that turns out to be an overall win on
   readabilty.

The overall cleanup results in less code and 488 bytes text size
reduction on x8664.

Thanks,

	tglx
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 futex.c |  385 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 171 insertions(+), 214 deletions(-)

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