On Mon, 2021-03-01 at 18:29 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 09:07:03AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 15:00 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.258 kernel. > > > > > > > > All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. > > > > > > > > The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y > > > > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: > > > > > > > > > > The backported futex fixes are still incomplete/broken in this version. > > > If I enable lockdep and run the futex self-tests (from 5.10): > > > > > > - on 4.9.246, they pass with no lockdep output > > > - on 4.9.257 and 4.9.258, they pass but futex_requeue_pi trigers a > > > lockdep splat > > > > > > I have a local branch that essentially updates futex and rtmutex in > > > 4.9-stable to match 4.14-stable. With this, the tests pass and lockdep > > > is happy. > > > > > > Unfortunately, that branch has about another 60 commits. > > I have now rebased that on top of 4.9.258, and there are "only" 39 > commits. > > > > Further, the > > > more we change futex in 4.9, the more difficult it is going to be to > > > update the 4.9-rt branch. But I don't see any better option available > > > at the moment. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > There were some posted futex fixes for 4.9 (and 4.4) on the stable list > > that I have not gotten to yet. > > > > Hopefully after these are merged (this week), these issues will be > > resolved. > > I'm afraid they are not sufficient. > > > If not, then yes, they need to be fixed and any help you can provide > > would be appreciated. > > > > As for "difficulty", yes, it's rough, but the changes backported were > > required, for obvious reasons :( > > I had another look at the locking bug and I was able to make a series > of 7 commits (on top of the 2 already queued) that is sufficient to > make lockdep happy. But I am not very confident that there won't be > other regressions. I'll send that over shortly. This is all I had to do to make 4.4-stable a happy camper again. futex: fix 4.4-stable 34c8e1c2c025 backport inspired lockdep complaint 1. 34c8e1c2c025 "futex: Provide and use pi_state_update_owner()" was backported to stable, leading to the therein assertion that pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock be held triggering in 4.4-stable. Fixing that leads to lockdep moan part 2. 2: b4abf91047cf "rtmutex: Make wait_lock irq safe" is absent in 4.4-stable, but wake_futex_pi() nonetheless managed to acquire an unbalanced raw_spin_lock() raw_spin_inlock_irq() pair, which inspires lockdep to moan after aforementioned assert has been appeased. With this applied, futex tests pass, and no longer inspire lockdep gripeage. Not-Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> --- kernel/futex.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -874,8 +874,12 @@ static void free_pi_state(struct futex_p * and has cleaned up the pi_state already */ if (pi_state->owner) { + unsigned long flags; + + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock, flags); pi_state_update_owner(pi_state, NULL); rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(&pi_state->pi_mutex); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock, flags); } if (current->pi_state_cache) @@ -1406,7 +1410,7 @@ static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uad if (pi_state->owner != current) return -EINVAL; - raw_spin_lock(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock); + raw_spin_lock_irq(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock); new_owner = rt_mutex_next_owner(&pi_state->pi_mutex); /*