2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner commit eaaea8036d0261d87d7072c5bc88c7ea730c18ac upstream. Rich reported a lock imbalance in the futex code: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14288 It's caused by the displacement of the retry_private label in futex_wake_op(). The code unlocks the hash bucket locks in the error handling path and retries without locking them again which makes the next unlock fail. Move retry_private so we lock the hash bucket locks when we retry. Reported-by: Rich Ercolany Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Darren Hart LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/futex.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -912,8 +912,8 @@ retry: hb1 = hash_futex(&key1); hb2 = hash_futex(&key2); - double_lock_hb(hb1, hb2); retry_private: + double_lock_hb(hb1, hb2); op_ret = futex_atomic_op_inuser(op, uaddr2); if (unlikely(op_ret < 0)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/