The patch titled hrtimer: fix hrtimer_init_sleeper() users has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is hrtimer-fix-hrtimer_init_sleeper-users.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: hrtimer: fix hrtimer_init_sleeper() users From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> commit 37bb6cb4097e29ffee970065b74499cbf10603a3 Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:32 2008 +0100 hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup Broke hrtimer_init_sleeper() users. It forgot to fix up the futex caller of this function to detect the failed queueing and messed up the do_nanosleep() caller in that it could leak a TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/futex.c | 2 ++ kernel/hrtimer.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/futex.c~hrtimer-fix-hrtimer_init_sleeper-users kernel/futex.c --- a/kernel/futex.c~hrtimer-fix-hrtimer_init_sleeper-users +++ a/kernel/futex.c @@ -1252,6 +1252,8 @@ static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, t.timer.expires = *abs_time; hrtimer_start(&t.timer, t.timer.expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS); + if (!hrtimer_active(&t.timer)) + t.task = NULL; /* * the timer could have already expired, in which diff -puN kernel/hrtimer.c~hrtimer-fix-hrtimer_init_sleeper-users kernel/hrtimer.c --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c~hrtimer-fix-hrtimer_init_sleeper-users +++ a/kernel/hrtimer.c @@ -1314,6 +1314,8 @@ static int __sched do_nanosleep(struct h } while (t->task && !signal_pending(current)); + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + return t->task == NULL; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch lockdep-annotate-epoll.patch slub-move-kmem_cache_node-determination-into-add_full-and-add_partial-slub-workaround-for-lockdep-confusion.patch swapin-needs-gfp_mask-for-loop-on-tmpfs.patch mm-page-writeback-highmem_is_dirtyable-option.patch mm-page-writeback-highmem_is_dirtyable-option-fix.patch skip-writing-data-pages-when-inode-is-under-i_sync.patch fix-dirty-page-accounting-leak-with-ext3-data=journal.patch kernel-add-mutex_lock_killable.patch vfs-use-mutex_lock_killable-in-vfs_readdir.patch hrtimer-fix-hrtimer_init_sleeper-users.patch memory-controller-add-documentation.patch memory-controller-resource-counters-v7.patch memory-controller-containers-setup-v7.patch memory-controller-accounting-setup-v7.patch memory-controller-memory-accounting-v7.patch memory-controller-task-migration-v7.patch memory-controller-add-per-container-lru-and-reclaim-v7.patch memory-controller-improve-user-interface.patch memory-controller-oom-handling-v7.patch memory-controller-add-switch-to-control-what-type-of-pages-to-limit-v7.patch memory-controller-make-page_referenced-container-aware-v7.patch memory-controller-make-charging-gfp-mask-aware.patch memcgroup-reinstate-swapoff-mod.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-charge-refcnt-race-fix.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-fix-error-handling-path-in-mem_charge_cgroup.patch bugfix-for-memory-controller-add-helper-function-for-assigning-cgroup-to-page.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-migration-under-memory-controller-fix.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-avoid-pagelru-page-in-mem_cgroup_isolate_pages.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-avoid-pagelru-page-in-mem_cgroup_isolate_pages-fix.patch memcgroup-fix-zone-isolation-oom.patch memcgroup-revert-swap_state-mods.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-fix-zone-handling-in-try_to_free_mem_cgroup_page.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-force_empty-interface-for-dropping-all-account-in-empty-cgroup.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-remember-a-page-is-charged-as-page-cache.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-remember-a-page-is-on-active-list-of-cgroup-or-not.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-status-accounting-function-for-memory-cgroup.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-memorystat-file.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-pre_destroy-handler.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-implicit-force_empty-at-rmdir.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-add-scan_global_lru-macro.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-nid-zid-helper-function-for-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-active-inactive-counter.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-calculate-mapper_ratio-per-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-calculate-active-inactive-imbalance-per-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-remember-reclaim-priority-in-memory-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-calculate-the-number-of-pages-to-be-scanned-per-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-modifies-vmscanc-for-isolate-globa-cgroup-lru-activity.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-lru-for-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-lock-for-cgroup.patch mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs.patch mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-nfs.patch mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-fuse.patch mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-minimum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-maximum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html