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authorjohn stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>2007-08-22 14:01:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-08-22 19:52:44 -0700
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futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock
Avoid futex_unlock_pi returning -EFAULT (which results in deadlock), by clearing uval before jumping to retry_locked. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 3415e9a..e8935b1 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1670,6 +1670,7 @@ pi_faulted:
attempt);
if (ret)
goto out;
+ uval = 0;
goto retry_unlocked;
}
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