[PATCH] futex: Don't include process in key on no-MMU

From: Ben Wolsieffer
Date: Thu Oct 19 2023 - 16:46:38 EST


On no-MMU, all futexes are treated as private because there is no need
to map a virtual address to physical to match the futex across
processes. This doesn't quite work though, because private futexes
include the current process's mm_struct as part of their key. This makes
it impossible for one process to wake up a shared futex being waited on
in another process.

This patch fixes this bug by excluding the mm_struct from the key. With
a single address space, the futex address is already a unique key.

Fixes: 784bdf3bb694 ("futex: Assume all mappings are private on !MMU systems")
Signed-off-by: Ben Wolsieffer <ben.wolsieffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/futex/core.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex/core.c b/kernel/futex/core.c
index 514e4582b863..d4141b054718 100644
--- a/kernel/futex/core.c
+++ b/kernel/futex/core.c
@@ -248,7 +248,17 @@ int get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, bool fshared, union futex_key *key,
* but access_ok() should be faster than find_vma()
*/
if (!fshared) {
- key->private.mm = mm;
+ /*
+ * On no-MMU, shared futexes are treated as private, therefore
+ * we must not include the current process in the key. Since
+ * there is only one address space, the address is a unique key
+ * on its own.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MMU))
+ key->private.mm = mm;
+ else
+ key->private.mm = NULL;
+
key->private.address = address;
return 0;
}
--
2.42.0