Re: [PATCH V2] futex: set FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT during demux forFUTEX_WAIT

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Apr 14 2011 - 14:56:45 EST


Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 Ã 11:45 -0700, Darren Hart a Ãcrit :
> The FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT flag was not getting set, causing the restart_block to
> restart futex_wait() without a timeout after a signal.
>
> Commit b41277dc7a18ee332d in 2.6.38 introduced the regression by accidentally
> removing the the FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT assignment from futex_wait() during the setup
> of the restart block. It makes more sense to set the flag earlier during
> do_futex() where the other flags are set, although futex_wait is the only user
> of FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT as it is the only op using a relative timeout (an
> unfortunately preexisting condition).
>
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32922
>
> V2: Added references to commit message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Tim Smith <tsmith201104@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/futex.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
> index bda4157..6eac6b6 100644
> --- a/kernel/futex.c
> +++ b/kernel/futex.c
> @@ -2589,6 +2589,9 @@ long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
> return -ENOSYS;
> }
>
> + if (timeout)
> + flags |= FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT;
> +
> switch (cmd) {
> case FUTEX_WAIT:
> val3 = FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY;


I dont agree with your fix. You add yet another test in futex fastpath.

Prior commit b41277dc7a18ee332d, this was done only in case of restart.

Could we instead use

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index dfb924f..fe28dc2 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1886,7 +1886,7 @@ retry:
restart->futex.val = val;
restart->futex.time = abs_time->tv64;
restart->futex.bitset = bitset;
- restart->futex.flags = flags;
+ restart->futex.flags = flags | FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT;

ret = -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;



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