linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 42/66] futex: Sanitize exit state handling

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Message-Id: <20191127202724.089292927@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 21:32:37 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 42/66] futex: Sanitize exit state handling

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

commit 4a8e991b91aca9e20705d434677ac013974e0e30 upstream.

Instead of having a smp_mb() and an empty lock/unlock of task::pi_lock move
the state setting into to the lock section.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.645603214@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/futex.c |   17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -3703,16 +3703,19 @@ void futex_exit_recursive(struct task_st
 
 void futex_exit_release(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_EXITING;
-	/*
-	 * Ensure that all new tsk->pi_lock acquisitions must observe
-	 * FUTEX_STATE_EXITING. Serializes against attach_to_pi_owner().
-	 */
-	smp_mb();
 	/*
-	 * Ensure that we must observe the pi_state in exit_pi_state_list().
+	 * Switch the state to FUTEX_STATE_EXITING under tsk->pi_lock.
+	 *
+	 * This ensures that all subsequent checks of tsk->futex_state in
+	 * attach_to_pi_owner() must observe FUTEX_STATE_EXITING with
+	 * tsk->pi_lock held.
+	 *
+	 * It guarantees also that a pi_state which was queued right before
+	 * the state change under tsk->pi_lock by a concurrent waiter must
+	 * be observed in exit_pi_state_list().
 	 */
 	raw_spin_lock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
+	tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_EXITING;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
 
 	futex_exec_release(tsk);