This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
futex: Use smp_store_release() in mark_wake_futex()
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
futex-use-smp_store_release-in-mark_wake_futex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Mar 29 07:48:09 AM CEST 2021
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:40:54 +0200
Subject: futex: Use smp_store_release() in mark_wake_futex()
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@xxxxxxxxxx>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <YGDp1qJOCUJmE1Ty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Disposition: inline
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1b367ece0d7e696cab1c8501bab282cc6a538b3f upstream.
Since the futex_q can dissapear the instruction after assigning NULL,
this really should be a RELEASE barrier. That stops loads from hitting
dead memory too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: juri.lelli@xxxxxxx
Cc: bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: xlpang@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: jdesfossez@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bristot@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322104151.604296452@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/futex.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1565,8 +1565,7 @@ static void mark_wake_futex(struct wake_
* memory barrier is required here to prevent the following
* store to lock_ptr from getting ahead of the plist_del.
*/
- smp_wmb();
- q->lock_ptr = NULL;
+ smp_store_release(&q->lock_ptr, NULL);
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/futex-drop-hb-lock-before-enqueueing-on-the-rtmutex.patch
queue-4.9/futex-rework-futex_lock_pi-to-use-rt_mutex_-_proxy_lock.patch
queue-4.9/futex-avoid-freeing-an-active-timer.patch
queue-4.9/futex-rt_mutex-introduce-rt_mutex_init_waiter.patch
queue-4.9/futex-fix-incorrect-should_fail_futex-handling.patch
queue-4.9/futex-rt_mutex-fix-rt_mutex_cleanup_proxy_lock.patch
queue-4.9/futex-use-smp_store_release-in-mark_wake_futex.patch
queue-4.9/futex-fix-possible-missed-wakeup.patch
queue-4.9/locking-futex-allow-low-level-atomic-operations-to-return-eagain.patch
queue-4.9/futex-prevent-robust-futex-exit-race.patch
queue-4.9/futex-handle-transient-ownerless-rtmutex-state-correctly.patch
queue-4.9/futex-handle-early-deadlock-return-correctly.patch
queue-4.9/arm64-futex-bound-number-of-ldxr-stxr-loops-in-futex_wake_op.patch
