linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 14/61] drm/i915: Fix mutex->owner inspection race under DEBUG

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:26:26 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 14/61] drm/i915: Fix mutex->owner inspection race under DEBUG_MUTEXES

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>

commit 226e5ae9e5f9108beb0bde4ac69f68fe6210fed9 upstream.

If CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES is set, the mutex->owner field is only cleared
if the mutex debugging is enabled which introduces a race in our
mutex_is_locked_by() - i.e. we may inspect the old owner value before it
is acquired by the new task.

This is the root cause of this error:

# diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c b/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
# index 5cf6731..3ef3736 100644
# --- a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
# +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
# @@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ void debug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock)
# 			DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current);
#
# 		DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->wait_list.prev && !lock->wait_list.next);
# -		mutex_clear_owner(lock);
# 	}
#
# 	/*
# 	 * __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() is explicitly 0 for debug
# 	 * mutexes so that we can do it here after we've verified state.
# 	 */
# +	mutex_clear_owner(lock);
# 	atomic_set(&lock->count, 1);
#  }

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87955
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -5144,7 +5144,7 @@ static bool mutex_is_locked_by(struct mu
 	if (!mutex_is_locked(mutex))
 		return false;
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES)
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES)
 	return mutex->owner == task;
 #else
 	/* Since UP may be pre-empted, we cannot assume that we own the lock */


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