Revision e91467ecd1ef381377fd327c0ded922835ec52ab authored by Christian Borntraeger on 05 August 2006, 19:13:52 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 06 August 2006, 15:57:46 UTC
This patch adds a barrier() in futex unqueue_me to avoid aliasing of two pointers. On my s390x system I saw the following oops: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000000000000 Oops: 0004 [#1] CPU: 0 Not tainted Process mytool (pid: 13613, task: 000000003ecb6ac0, ksp: 00000000366bdbd8) Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 00000000003c9ac2 (_spin_lock+0xe/0x30) Krnl GPRS: 00000000ffffffff 000000003ecb6ac0 0000000000000000 0700000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000001fe00002028 00000000000c091f 000001fe00002054 000001fe00002054 0000000000000000 00000000366bddc0 00000000005ef8c0 00000000003d00e8 0000000000144f91 00000000366bdcb8 Krnl Code: ba 4e 20 00 12 44 b9 16 00 3e a7 84 00 08 e3 e0 f0 88 00 04 Call Trace: ([<0000000000144f90>] unqueue_me+0x40/0xe4) [<0000000000145a0c>] do_futex+0x33c/0xc40 [<000000000014643e>] sys_futex+0x12e/0x144 [<000000000010bb00>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 [<000002000003741c>] 0x2000003741c The code in question is: static int unqueue_me(struct futex_q *q) { int ret = 0; spinlock_t *lock_ptr; /* In the common case we don't take the spinlock, which is nice. */ retry: lock_ptr = q->lock_ptr; if (lock_ptr != 0) { spin_lock(lock_ptr); /* * q->lock_ptr can change between reading it and * spin_lock(), causing us to take the wrong lock. This * corrects the race condition. [...] and my compiler (gcc 4.1.0) makes the following out of it: 00000000000003c8 <unqueue_me>: 3c8: eb bf f0 70 00 24 stmg %r11,%r15,112(%r15) 3ce: c0 d0 00 00 00 00 larl %r13,3ce <unqueue_me+0x6> 3d0: R_390_PC32DBL .rodata+0x2a 3d4: a7 f1 1e 00 tml %r15,7680 3d8: a7 84 00 01 je 3da <unqueue_me+0x12> 3dc: b9 04 00 ef lgr %r14,%r15 3e0: a7 fb ff d0 aghi %r15,-48 3e4: b9 04 00 b2 lgr %r11,%r2 3e8: e3 e0 f0 98 00 24 stg %r14,152(%r15) 3ee: e3 c0 b0 28 00 04 lg %r12,40(%r11) /* write q->lock_ptr in r12 */ 3f4: b9 02 00 cc ltgr %r12,%r12 3f8: a7 84 00 4b je 48e <unqueue_me+0xc6> /* if r12 is zero then jump over the code.... */ 3fc: e3 20 b0 28 00 04 lg %r2,40(%r11) /* write q->lock_ptr in r2 */ 402: c0 e5 00 00 00 00 brasl %r14,402 <unqueue_me+0x3a> 404: R_390_PC32DBL _spin_lock+0x2 /* use r2 as parameter for spin_lock */ So the code becomes more or less: if (q->lock_ptr != 0) spin_lock(q->lock_ptr) instead of if (lock_ptr != 0) spin_lock(lock_ptr) Which caused the oops from above. After adding a barrier gcc creates code without this problem: [...] (the same) 3ee: e3 c0 b0 28 00 04 lg %r12,40(%r11) 3f4: b9 02 00 cc ltgr %r12,%r12 3f8: b9 04 00 2c lgr %r2,%r12 3fc: a7 84 00 48 je 48c <unqueue_me+0xc4> 400: c0 e5 00 00 00 00 brasl %r14,400 <unqueue_me+0x38> 402: R_390_PC32DBL _spin_lock+0x2 As a general note, this code of unqueue_me seems a bit fishy. The retry logic of unqueue_me only works if we can guarantee, that the original value of q->lock_ptr is always a spinlock (Otherwise we overwrite kernel memory). We know that q->lock_ptr can change. I dont know what happens with the original spinlock, as I am not an expert with the futex code. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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ioctls.h
#ifndef __ARCH_H8300_IOCTLS_H__
#define __ARCH_H8300_IOCTLS_H__
#include <asm/ioctl.h>
/* 0x54 is just a magic number to make these relatively unique ('T') */
#define TCGETS 0x5401
#define TCSETS 0x5402
#define TCSETSW 0x5403
#define TCSETSF 0x5404
#define TCGETA 0x5405
#define TCSETA 0x5406
#define TCSETAW 0x5407
#define TCSETAF 0x5408
#define TCSBRK 0x5409
#define TCXONC 0x540A
#define TCFLSH 0x540B
#define TIOCEXCL 0x540C
#define TIOCNXCL 0x540D
#define TIOCSCTTY 0x540E
#define TIOCGPGRP 0x540F
#define TIOCSPGRP 0x5410
#define TIOCOUTQ 0x5411
#define TIOCSTI 0x5412
#define TIOCGWINSZ 0x5413
#define TIOCSWINSZ 0x5414
#define TIOCMGET 0x5415
#define TIOCMBIS 0x5416
#define TIOCMBIC 0x5417
#define TIOCMSET 0x5418
#define TIOCGSOFTCAR 0x5419
#define TIOCSSOFTCAR 0x541A
#define FIONREAD 0x541B
#define TIOCINQ FIONREAD
#define TIOCLINUX 0x541C
#define TIOCCONS 0x541D
#define TIOCGSERIAL 0x541E
#define TIOCSSERIAL 0x541F
#define TIOCPKT 0x5420
#define FIONBIO 0x5421
#define TIOCNOTTY 0x5422
#define TIOCSETD 0x5423
#define TIOCGETD 0x5424
#define TCSBRKP 0x5425 /* Needed for POSIX tcsendbreak() */
#define TIOCTTYGSTRUCT 0x5426 /* For debugging only */
#define TIOCSBRK 0x5427 /* BSD compatibility */
#define TIOCCBRK 0x5428 /* BSD compatibility */
#define TIOCGSID 0x5429 /* Return the session ID of FD */
#define TIOCGPTN _IOR('T',0x30, unsigned int) /* Get Pty Number (of pty-mux device) */
#define TIOCSPTLCK _IOW('T',0x31, int) /* Lock/unlock Pty */
#define FIONCLEX 0x5450 /* these numbers need to be adjusted. */
#define FIOCLEX 0x5451
#define FIOASYNC 0x5452
#define TIOCSERCONFIG 0x5453
#define TIOCSERGWILD 0x5454
#define TIOCSERSWILD 0x5455
#define TIOCGLCKTRMIOS 0x5456
#define TIOCSLCKTRMIOS 0x5457
#define TIOCSERGSTRUCT 0x5458 /* For debugging only */
#define TIOCSERGETLSR 0x5459 /* Get line status register */
#define TIOCSERGETMULTI 0x545A /* Get multiport config */
#define TIOCSERSETMULTI 0x545B /* Set multiport config */
#define TIOCMIWAIT 0x545C /* wait for a change on serial input line(s) */
#define TIOCGICOUNT 0x545D /* read serial port inline interrupt counts */
#define FIOQSIZE 0x545E
/* Used for packet mode */
#define TIOCPKT_DATA 0
#define TIOCPKT_FLUSHREAD 1
#define TIOCPKT_FLUSHWRITE 2
#define TIOCPKT_STOP 4
#define TIOCPKT_START 8
#define TIOCPKT_NOSTOP 16
#define TIOCPKT_DOSTOP 32
#define TIOCSER_TEMT 0x01 /* Transmitter physically empty */
#endif /* __ARCH_H8300_IOCTLS_H__ */
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