tree 07bbd53bdc9a47d86ca667f3171c3b7ebf1ac07c
parent d014e8894dfc523dd9d2f2a17b6dcb94facea810
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1254641657 +0200
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1254769694 +0200

futex: Fix locking imbalance

Rich reported a lock imbalance in the futex code:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14288

It's caused by the displacement of the retry_private label in
futex_wake_op(). The code unlocks the hash bucket locks in the
error handling path and retries without locking them again which
makes the next unlock fail.

Move retry_private so we lock the hash bucket locks when we retry.

Reported-by: Rich Ercolany <rercola@acm.jhu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable-2.6.31 <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>