Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test

From: Daniel Walter
Date: Mon Dec 15 2014 - 05:35:09 EST


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Weinberger" <richard@xxxxxx>
> To: user-mode-linux-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: arnd@xxxxxxxx, miklos@xxxxxxxxxx, "Richard Weinberger" <richard@xxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lftan@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 1:02:15 PM
> Subject: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test
>
> futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() does not work on UML because
> it triggers a copy_from_user() in kernel context.
> On UML copy_from_user() can only be used if the kernel was called
> by a real user space process such that UML can use ptrace()
> to fetch the value.
>
> Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/um/Kconfig.common | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.common b/arch/um/Kconfig.common
> index 87bc868..d195a87 100644
> --- a/arch/um/Kconfig.common
> +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.common
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config UML
> default y
> select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
> select HAVE_UID16
> + select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG if FUTEX
> select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
> select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
> select GENERIC_IO
> --
> 2.1.0
>
Hi,

tested it a few days, looks good.


Tested-by: Daniel Walter <d.walter@xxxxxxx>
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