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rt-mutex: fix chain walk early wakeup bug
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Alexey Kuznetsov found some problems in the pi-futex code.

One of the root causes is:

When a wakeup happens, we do not to stop the chain walk so we follow a not
longer relevant locking chain.

Drop out when this happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jun 9, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -189,6 +189,19 @@ int rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(struct task_struct *task,
if (!waiter || !waiter->task)
goto out_unlock_pi;

/*
* Check the orig_waiter state. After we dropped the locks,
* the previous owner of the lock might have released the lock
* and made us the pending owner:
*/
if (orig_waiter && !orig_waiter->task)
goto out_unlock_pi;

/*
* Drop out, when the task has no waiters. Note,
* top_waiter can be NULL, when we are in the deboosting
* mode!
*/
if (top_waiter && (!task_has_pi_waiters(task) ||
top_waiter != task_top_pi_waiter(task)))
goto out_unlock_pi;
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