On Tue, 9 May 2017 17:11:10 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> RT has a problem when the wait on a futex/rtmutex got interrupted by a > timeout or a signal. task->pi_blocked_on is still set when returning from > rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock(). The task must acquire the hash bucket lock > after this. > > If the hash bucket lock is contended then the > BUG_ON(rt_mutex_real_waiter(task->pi_blocked_on)) in > task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() will trigger. > > This can be avoided by clearing task->pi_blocked_on in the return path of > rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock() which removes the task from the boosting chain > of the rtmutex. That's correct because the task is not longer blocked on s/not/no/ > it. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Engleder Gerhard <[email protected]> > --- > kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) > > --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c > +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c > @@ -2380,6 +2380,7 @@ int rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock(struct rt_m > struct hrtimer_sleeper *to, > struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter) > { > + struct task_struct *tsk = current; > int ret; > > raw_spin_lock_irq(&lock->wait_lock); > @@ -2389,6 +2390,22 @@ int rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock(struct rt_m > /* sleep on the mutex */ > ret = __rt_mutex_slowlock(lock, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, to, waiter, NULL); > > + /* > + * RT has a problem here when the wait got interrupted by a timeout > + * or a signal. task->pi_blocked_on is still set. The task must > + * acquire the hash bucket lock when returning from this function. > + * > + * If the hash bucket lock is contended then the > + * BUG_ON(rt_mutex_real_waiter(task->pi_blocked_on)) in > + * task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() will trigger. This can be avoided by > + * clearing task->pi_blocked_on which removes the task from the > + * boosting chain of the rtmutex. That's correct because the task > + * is not longer blocked on it. s/not/no/ I looked at the users of pi_blocked_on, and this appears to be fine. I don't see it used by remove_waiter() where it clears it at the start. Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]> -- Steve > + */ > + raw_spin_lock(&tsk->pi_lock); > + tsk->pi_blocked_on = NULL; > + raw_spin_unlock(&tsk->pi_lock); > + > raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock); > > return ret;
