Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 1 author, 2015-03-13
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[PATCH RT 17/25] rt-mutex: avoid a NULL pointer dereference on deadlock

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2015-03-13 15:37:38
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Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

3.2.68-rt99-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

With task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() returning early -EDEADLK we never add the
waiter to the waitqueue. Later, we try to remove it via remove_waiter()
and go boom in rt_mutex_top_waiter() because rb_entry() gives a NULL
pointer.
Tested on v3.18-RT where rtmutex is used for regular mutex and I tried
to get one twice in a row.

Not sure when this started but I guess 397335f00 ("rtmutex: Fix deadlock
detector for real") or commit 3d5c9340 ("rtmutex: Handle deadlock
detection smarter").

Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/rtmutex.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex.c b/kernel/rtmutex.c
index a94f3a316dca..52cab2720a06 100644
--- a/kernel/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex.c
@@ -1511,7 +1511,8 @@ rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
 	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
 	if (unlikely(ret)) {
-		remove_waiter(lock, &waiter);
+		if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock))
+			remove_waiter(lock, &waiter);
 		rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(ret, chwalk, &waiter);
 	}
 
-- 
2.1.4
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