linux/kernel/locking
Thomas Gleixner 27e35715df rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race
When the rtmutex fast path is enabled the slow unlock function can
create the following situation:

spin_lock(foo->m->wait_lock);
foo->m->owner = NULL;
	    			rt_mutex_lock(foo->m); <-- fast path
				free = atomic_dec_and_test(foo->refcnt);
				rt_mutex_unlock(foo->m); <-- fast path
				if (free)
				   kfree(foo);

spin_unlock(foo->m->wait_lock); <--- Use after free.

Plug the race by changing the slow unlock to the following scheme:

     while (!rt_mutex_has_waiters(m)) {
     	    /* Clear the waiters bit in m->owner */
	    clear_rt_mutex_waiters(m);
      	    owner = rt_mutex_owner(m);
      	    spin_unlock(m->wait_lock);
      	    if (cmpxchg(m->owner, owner, 0) == owner)
      	       return;
      	    spin_lock(m->wait_lock);
     }

So in case of a new waiter incoming while the owner tries the slow
path unlock we have two situations:

 unlock(wait_lock);
					lock(wait_lock);
 cmpxchg(p, owner, 0) == owner
 	    	   			mark_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
	 				acquire(lock);

Or:

 unlock(wait_lock);
					lock(wait_lock);
	 				mark_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
 cmpxchg(p, owner, 0) != owner
					enqueue_waiter();
					unlock(wait_lock);
 lock(wait_lock);
 wakeup_next waiter();
 unlock(wait_lock);
					lock(wait_lock);
					acquire(lock);

If the fast path is disabled, then the simple

   m->owner = NULL;
   unlock(m->wait_lock);

is sufficient as all access to m->owner is serialized via
m->wait_lock;

Also document and clarify the wakeup_next_waiter function as suggested
by Oleg Nesterov.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611183852.937945560@linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-06-16 10:03:09 +02:00
..
lglock.c locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:20 +01:00
lockdep.c asmlinkage: Add explicit __visible to drivers/*, lib/*, kernel/* 2014-05-05 16:07:46 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:08 +01:00
lockdep_proc.c lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation 2013-11-11 12:41:34 +01:00
lockdep_states.h locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:08 +01:00
locktorture.c rcutorture: Add a lock_busted to test the test 2014-02-23 09:04:43 -08:00
Makefile lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP 2014-04-07 16:36:14 -07:00
mcs_spinlock.c locking/mutexes: Introduce cancelable MCS lock for adaptive spinning 2014-03-11 12:14:56 +01:00
mcs_spinlock.h locking/mutexes: Introduce cancelable MCS lock for adaptive spinning 2014-03-11 12:14:56 +01:00
mutex-debug.c locking/mutex: Fix debug_mutexes 2014-04-11 10:40:35 +02:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c Merge branch 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-03-31 14:13:25 -07:00
mutex.h
percpu-rwsem.c locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:22 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.c rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree 2014-01-13 13:41:50 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h rtmutex: Handle deadlock detection smarter 2014-06-07 14:55:40 +02:00
rtmutex-tester.c locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
rtmutex.c rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race 2014-06-16 10:03:09 +02:00
rtmutex.h rtmutex: Handle deadlock detection smarter 2014-06-07 14:55:40 +02:00
rtmutex_common.h sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE inheritance logic 2014-01-13 13:42:56 +01:00
rwsem-spinlock.c locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:18 +01:00
rwsem-xadd.c asmlinkage: Mark rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkage 2014-02-13 18:13:37 -08:00
rwsem.c locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:18 +01:00
semaphore.c locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:22 +01:00
spinlock.c locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:21 +01:00
spinlock_debug.c locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:21 +01:00