Re: [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Sep 30 2007 - 12:06:31 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ingo,
> > I finally found the bug that causes tst-robust8 from the glibc to fail
> > on s390x. Turned out to be a common code problem with the processing of
> > the robust futex list. The patch below fixes the bug for me.
>
> good catch! A quick preliminary review of your patch indicates it's
> fine - and it might be v2.6.23 material.

there's a symmetric bug in kernel/compat_futex.c too.

Ingo
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