This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/i915: Fix mutex->owner inspection race under DEBUG_MUTEXES

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-i915-fix-mutex-owner-inspection-race-under-debug_mutexes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 226e5ae9e5f9108beb0bde4ac69f68fe6210fed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 09:47:10 +0000
Subject: drm/i915: Fix mutex->owner inspection race under DEBUG_MUTEXES

From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>

commit 226e5ae9e5f9108beb0bde4ac69f68fe6210fed9 upstream.

If CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES is set, the mutex->owner field is only cleared
if the mutex debugging is enabled which introduces a race in our
mutex_is_locked_by() - i.e. we may inspect the old owner value before it
is acquired by the new task.

This is the root cause of this error:

# diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c b/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
# index 5cf6731..3ef3736 100644
# --- a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
# +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
# @@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ void debug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock)
#                       DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current);
#
#               DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->wait_list.prev && 
!lock->wait_list.next);
# -             mutex_clear_owner(lock);
#       }
#
#       /*
#        * __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() is explicitly 0 for debug
#        * mutexes so that we can do it here after we've verified state.
#        */
# +     mutex_clear_owner(lock);
#       atomic_set(&lock->count, 1);
#  }

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87955
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -4449,7 +4449,7 @@ static bool mutex_is_locked_by(struct mu
        if (!mutex_is_locked(mutex))
                return false;
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES)
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES)
        return mutex->owner == task;
 #else
        /* Since UP may be pre-empted, we cannot assume that we own the lock */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.10/drm-i915-fix-mutex-owner-inspection-race-under-debug_mutexes.patch
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