Re: [patch 0/2] locking/rtmutex: Cure two subtle bugs

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 07:42:03 EST


On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:33:11PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The recent updates to rtmutex introduced two subtle bugs:
>
> 1) The spinwait mechanism added a UAF which triggers a BUG_ON()
>
> 2) The ww_mutex addition leaves a waiter queued in the error exit path
> resulting in rb tree corruption
>
> The fixes are straight forward, but the rtmutex based ww_mutex
> implementation still has some more rough egdes which need to be ironed out.

Thanks!