[tip:core/urgent] futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix

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Commit-ID:  5ecb01cfdf96c5f465192bdb2a4fd4a61a24c6cc
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/5ecb01cfdf96c5f465192bdb2a4fd4a61a24c6cc
Author:     Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:36:29 +0100
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:13:22 +0100

futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix

This fixes a futex key reference count bug in futex_lock_pi(),
where a key's reference count is incremented twice but decremented
only once, causing the backing object to not be released.

If the futex is created in a temporary file in an ext3 file system,
this bug causes the file's inode to become an "undead" orphan,
which causes an oops from a BUG_ON() in ext3_put_super() when the
file system is unmounted. glibc's test suite is known to trigger this,
see <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14256>.

The bug is a regression from 2.6.28-git3, namely Peter Zijlstra's
38d47c1b7075bd7ec3881141bb3629da58f88dab "[PATCH] futex: rely on
get_user_pages() for shared futexes". That commit made get_futex_key()
also increment the reference count of the futex key, and updated its
callers to decrement the key's reference count before returning.
Unfortunately the normal exit path in futex_lock_pi() wasn't corrected:
the reference count is incremented by get_futex_key() and queue_lock(),
but the normal exit path only decrements once, via unqueue_me_pi().
The fix is to put_futex_key() after unqueue_me_pi(), since 2.6.31
this is easily done by 'goto out_put_key' rather than 'goto out'.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/futex.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index d9b3a22..1782803 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@ retry_private:
 	/* Unqueue and drop the lock */
 	unqueue_me_pi(&q);
 
-	goto out;
+	goto out_put_key;
 
 out_unlock_put_key:
 	queue_unlock(&q, hb);
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