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    futex: Fix spurious wakeup for requeue_pi really · 11df6ddd
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    
    
    The requeue_pi path doesn't use unqueue_me() (and the racy lock_ptr ==
    NULL test) nor does it use the wake_list of futex_wake() which where
    the reason for commit 41890f2 (futex: Handle spurious wake up)
    
    See debugging discussing on LKML Message-ID: <4AD4080C.20703@us.ibm.com>
    
    The changes in this fix to the wait_requeue_pi path were considered to
    be a likely unecessary, but harmless safety net. But it turns out that
    due to the fact that for unknown $@#!*( reasons EWOULDBLOCK is defined
    as EAGAIN we built an endless loop in the code path which returns
    correctly EWOULDBLOCK.
    
    Spurious wakeups in wait_requeue_pi code path are unlikely so we do
    the easy solution and return EWOULDBLOCK^WEAGAIN to user space and let
    it deal with the spurious wakeup.
    
    Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
    LKML-Reference: <4AE23C74.1090502@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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