On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 21:54 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 01/16/2015 04:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Thomas,
> >>
> >> On 01/15/2015 11:23 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >>>>> [EINVAL] uaddr equal uaddr2. Requeue to same futex.
> >>>>
> >>>> ??? I added this, but does this error not occur only for PI requeues?
> >>>
> >>> It's equally wrong for normal futexes. And its actually the same code
> >>> checking for this for all variants.
> >>
> >> I don't understand "equally wrong" in your reply, I'm sorry. Do you
> >> mean:
> >>
> >> a) This error text should be there for both normal and PI requeues
> >
> > It is there for both. The requeue code has that check independent of
> > the requeue type (normal/pi). It never makes sense to requeue
> > something to itself whether normal or pi futex. We added this for PI,
> > because there it is harmful, but we did not special case it. So normal
> > futexes get the same treatment.
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> Color me stupid, but I can't see this in futex_requeue(). Where is that
> check that is "independent of the requeue type (normal/pi)"?
>
> When I look through futex_requeue(), all the likely looking sources
> of EINVAL are governed by a check on the 'requeue_pi' argument.
Yeah, its not very straightforward, I was also scratching my head. First
we do:
if (requeue_pi) {
/*
* Requeue PI only works on two distinct uaddrs. This
* check is only valid for private futexes. See below.
*/
if (uaddr1 == uaddr2)
return -EINVAL;
Then:
/*
* The check above which compares uaddrs is not sufficient for
* shared futexes. We need to compare the keys:
*/
if (requeue_pi && match_futex(&key1, &key2)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out_put_keys;
}
I wonder why we're checking for requeue_pi again, when, at least
according to the comments, it should be for shared. I guess it would
make sense depending on the mappings as the keys are the only true way
of determining if both futexes are the same, so perhaps:
if ((requeue_pi || (flags & FLAGS_SHARED)) && match_futex())
That would also align with the retry labels.
Thanks,
Davidlohr
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