On Wed, 18 Aug 2021, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Currently the check on the rt_waiter and top_waiter->pi_state is
assigning an error return code to ret but this later gets re-assigned,
hence the check is currently ineffective. I believe the original
intent was to return -EINVAL rather than assign it to ret. Fix this.
LGTM.
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Fixes: dc7109aaa233 ("futex: Validate waiter correctly in futex_proxy_trylock_atomic()")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/futex.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index e7b4c6121da4..30e7daebaec8 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@ futex_proxy_trylock_atomic(u32 __user *pifutex, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb1,
* and waiting on the 'waitqueue' futex which is always !PI.
*/
if (!top_waiter->rt_waiter || top_waiter->pi_state)
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ return -EINVAL;
/* Ensure we requeue to the expected futex. */
if (!match_futex(top_waiter->requeue_pi_key, key2))
--
2.32.0
