Commit 8d1e5a1a authored Feb 17, 2015 by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Ingo Molnar Feb 18, 2015

locking/rtmutex: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference on deadlock



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 397335f0 ("rtmutex: Fix
deadlock detector for real") or commit 3d5c9340 ("rtmutex:
Handle deadlock detection smarter").

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # for v3.16 and later kernels
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424187823-19600-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de


Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent e07e0d4c

kernel/locking/rtmutex.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1193,6 +1193,7 @@ rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
		ret = __rt_mutex_slowlock(lock, state, timeout, &waiter);

		if (unlikely(ret)) {
		if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock))
		remove_waiter(lock, &waiter);
		rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(ret, chwalk, &waiter);
		}

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