From eaaea8036d0261d87d7072c5bc88c7ea730c18ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 09:34:17 +0200
Subject: futex: Fix locking imbalance

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 <rercola@acm.jhu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable-2.6.31 <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'kernel')

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 463af2e..1e176f3 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -916,8 +916,8 @@ 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)) {
 
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