The patch titled
Fix for Bug in PI exit code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
pi-futex-futex_lock_pi-futex_unlock_pi-support-fix.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Fix for Bug in PI exit code
From: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@xxxxxxxxxx>
We were seeing oopses like below a lot when using PI mutexes
===============================================================================
j9/3939[CPU#1]: BUG in free_pi_state at kernel/futex.c:361
[<c011dd92>] __WARN_ON+0x41/0x57 (8)
[<c0130e41>] free_pi_state+0x2d/0xb1 (48)
[<c0131a31>] unqueue_me_pi+0x5c/0x75 (12)
[<c0132236>] futex_lock_pi+0x50a/0x5b5 (16)
[<c014bab0>] do_wp_page+0x325/0x340 (36)
[<c03121a3>] do_page_fault+0x202/0x528 (156)
[<c01328d9>] do_futex+0x85/0x8b (20)
[<c0132966>] sys_futex+0x87/0x94 (24)
[<c01027c7>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 (40)
j9/3939[CPU#2]: BUG in free_pi_state at kernel/futex.c:362
[<c011dd92>] __WARN_ON+0x41/0x57 (8)
[<c0130e5e>] free_pi_state+0x4a/0xb1 (48)
[<c0131a31>] unqueue_me_pi+0x5c/0x75 (12)
[<c0132236>] futex_lock_pi+0x50a/0x5b5 (16)
[<c014bab0>] do_wp_page+0x325/0x340 (36)
[<c03121a3>] do_page_fault+0x202/0x528 (156)
[<c01328d9>] do_futex+0x85/0x8b (20)
[<c0132966>] sys_futex+0x87/0x94 (24)
[<c01027c7>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 (40)
BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000514
printing eip:
c0311096
*pde = 2cd36001
Oops: 0002 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: loop ipv6 i2c_dev i2c_core nfs lockd sunrpc dm_mirror
dm_multipath dm_mod joydev button battery ac ohci_hcd hw_random shpchp tg3 ext3
jbd sd_mod
CPU: 2
EIP: 0060:[<c0311096>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010002 (2.6.16-rayrt12.1.1smp #1)
EIP is at _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xb/0x1a
eax: 00000514 ebx: d61349c0 ecx: c038511c edx: ed040000
esi: d61349c8 edi: c0475d30 ebp: 08054638 esp: ed041e88
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 preempt: 00000002
Process j9 (pid: 3939, threadinfo=ed040000 task=d0951300 stack_left=7764
worst_left=-1)
Stack: <0>c0130e6b ed041f08 ed041f0c c0131a31 ed041f08 ed040000 fffffffc c0132236
c80c70b0 c0475d30 00000001 00000f67 c0475d30 00000000 00000000 d0951300
c014bab0 49e7e067 00000000 49e7e025 00000000 ffa20448 ffa52000 ffa51000
Call Trace:
[<c0130e6b>] free_pi_state+0x57/0xb1 (4)
[<c0131a31>] unqueue_me_pi+0x5c/0x75 (12)
[<c0132236>] futex_lock_pi+0x50a/0x5b5 (16)
[<c014bab0>] do_wp_page+0x325/0x340 (36)
[<c03121a3>] do_page_fault+0x202/0x528 (156)
[<c01328d9>] do_futex+0x85/0x8b (20)
[<c0132966>] sys_futex+0x87/0x94 (24)
===============================================================================
After a lot of debugging we found that this is caused due to the following race.
PM is a PI mutex, A and B are RT threads
Thread A (RT) Thread B (RT)
|
v
pthread_mutex_lock (PM) |
(glibc) got mutex v
do work pthread_mutex_lock (PM)
rt_mutex_timed_lock
EINTR EINTR (Process gets aborted)
do_exit lock(pi_mutex->lock->wait_lock)
exit_pi_state_list clear_waiters
lock(hb->lock)
pi_state->owner = NULL unlock(pi_mutex->lock->wait_lock)
rt_mutex_unlock(pi_mutex) lock(hb->lock) (blocks)
unlock(hb->lock) unblock -> free_pi_state
continue exit processing doesn't expect pi_state->owner to be NULL
Panic
The patch attached below seems to make this problem go away. This has been
stress tested quite a bit in the past 24 hours.
Does it look sane to you ??
Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/futex.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/futex.c~pi-futex-futex_lock_pi-futex_unlock_pi-support-fix kernel/futex.c
--- devel/kernel/futex.c~pi-futex-futex_lock_pi-futex_unlock_pi-support-fix 2006-06-10 01:32:26.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/kernel/futex.c 2006-06-10 01:32:26.000000000 -0700
@@ -355,14 +355,17 @@ static void free_pi_state(struct futex_p
if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&pi_state->refcount))
return;
- WARN_ON(!pi_state->owner);
- WARN_ON(!rt_mutex_is_locked(&pi_state->pi_mutex));
-
- spin_lock_irq(&pi_state->owner->pi_lock);
- list_del_init(&pi_state->list);
- spin_unlock_irq(&pi_state->owner->pi_lock);
+ /*
+ * If pi_state->owner is NULL, the owner is most probably dying
+ * and has cleaned up the pi_state already
+ */
+ if (pi_state->owner) {
+ spin_lock_irq(&pi_state->owner->pi_lock);
+ list_del_init(&pi_state->list);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&pi_state->owner->pi_lock);
- rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(&pi_state->pi_mutex, pi_state->owner);
+ rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(&pi_state->pi_mutex, pi_state->owner);
+ }
if (current->pi_state_cache)
kfree(pi_state);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dino@xxxxxxxxxx are
pi-futex-futex_lock_pi-futex_unlock_pi-support-fix.patch
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