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    futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix · 5ecb01cf
    Mikael Pettersson authored
    This fixes a futex key reference count bug in futex_lock_pi(),
    where a key's reference count is incremented twice but decremented
    only once, causing the backing object to not be released.
    
    If the futex is created in a temporary file in an ext3 file system,
    this bug causes the file's inode to become an "undead" orphan,
    which causes an oops from a BUG_ON() in ext3_put_super() when the
    file system is unmounted. glibc's test suite is known to trigger this,
    see <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14256>.
    
    The bug is a regression from 2.6.28-git3, namely Peter Zijlstra's
    38d47c1b
    
     "[PATCH] futex: rely on
    get_user_pages() for shared futexes". That commit made get_futex_key()
    also increment the reference count of the futex key, and updated its
    callers to decrement the key's reference count before returning.
    Unfortunately the normal exit path in futex_lock_pi() wasn't corrected:
    the reference count is incremented by get_futex_key() and queue_lock(),
    but the normal exit path only decrements once, via unqueue_me_pi().
    The fix is to put_futex_key() after unqueue_me_pi(), since 2.6.31
    this is easily done by 'goto out_put_key' rather than 'goto out'.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Acked-by: default avatarDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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