Commit-ID:  2a742cedcf13572999436676cbe36c3a9b733b0f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2a742cedcf13572999436676cbe36c3a9b733b0f
Author:     Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:40:36 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:38:07 +0200

uprobes: Fix the waitqueue_active() check in xol_free_insn_slot()

The xol_free_insn_slot()->waitqueue_active() check is buggy. We
need mb() after we set the conditon for wait_event(), or
xol_take_insn_slot() can miss the wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <[email protected]>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 2d5b7bd..4e5e979 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1337,6 +1337,7 @@ static void xol_free_insn_slot(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
                clear_bit(slot_nr, area->bitmap);
                atomic_dec(&area->slot_count);
+               smp_mb__after_atomic(); /* pairs with prepare_to_wait() */
                if (waitqueue_active(&area->wq))
                        wake_up(&area->wq);
 
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