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    futex: Handle spurious wake up · d58e6576
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    
    
    The futex code does not handle spurious wake up in futex_wait and
    futex_wait_requeue_pi.
    
    The code assumes that any wake up which was not caused by futex_wake /
    requeue or by a timeout was caused by a signal wake up and returns one
    of the syscall restart error codes.
    
    In case of a spurious wake up the signal delivery code which deals
    with the restart error codes is not invoked and we return that error
    code to user space. That causes applications which actually check the
    return codes to fail. Blaise reported that on preempt-rt a python test
    program run into a exception trap. -rt exposed that due to a built in
    spurious wake up accelerator :)
    
    Solve this by checking signal_pending(current) in the wake up path and
    handle the spurious wake up case w/o returning to user space.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarBlaise Gassend <blaise@willowgarage.com>
    Debugged-by: default avatarDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
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