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authorZhang Yi <wetpzy@gmail.com>2013-06-25 21:19:31 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-20 08:26:28 -0700
commita42efb79d54d9a13c8f68df122c832bca08b74ae (patch)
treeb49010c84b42ccc5407766471bc94c95efe63d83 /kernel
parent4d5b24dd453b4ff44f69756106b029e8961dcb55 (diff)
futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key
commit 13d60f4b6ab5b702dc8d2ee20999f98a93728aec upstream. The futex_keys of process shared futexes are generated from the page offset, the mapping host and the mapping index of the futex user space address. This should result in an unique identifier for each futex. Though this is not true when futexes are located in different subpages of an hugepage. The reason is, that the mapping index for all those futexes evaluates to the index of the base page of the hugetlbfs mapping. So a futex at offset 0 of the hugepage mapping and another one at offset PAGE_SIZE of the same hugepage mapping have identical futex_keys. This happens because the futex code blindly uses page->index. Steps to reproduce the bug: 1. Map a file from hugetlbfs. Initialize pthread_mutex1 at offset 0 and pthread_mutex2 at offset PAGE_SIZE of the hugetlbfs mapping. The mutexes must be initialized as PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED because PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE mutexes are not affected by this issue as their keys solely depend on the user space address. 2. Lock mutex1 and mutex2 3. Create thread1 and in the thread function lock mutex1, which results in thread1 blocking on the locked mutex1. 4. Create thread2 and in the thread function lock mutex2, which results in thread2 blocking on the locked mutex2. 5. Unlock mutex2. Despite the fact that mutex2 got unlocked, thread2 still blocks on mutex2 because the futex_key points to mutex1. To solve this issue we need to take the normal page index of the page which contains the futex into account, if the futex is in an hugetlbfs mapping. In other words, we calculate the normal page mapping index of the subpage in the hugetlbfs mapping. Mappings which are not based on hugetlbfs are not affected and still use page->index. Thanks to Mel Gorman who provided a patch for adding proper evaluation functions to the hugetlbfs code to avoid exposing hugetlbfs specific details to the futex code. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <zhang.yi20@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn> Tested-by: Ma Chenggong <ma.chenggong@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: 'Mel Gorman' <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: 'Darren Hart' <dvhart@linux.intel.com> Cc: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000101ce71a6%24a83c5880%24f8b50980%24@com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 887943044d46..f0ee318df9c0 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
#include <linux/pid.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <asm/futex.h>
@@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ again:
} else {
key->both.offset |= FUT_OFF_INODE; /* inode-based key */
key->shared.inode = page_head->mapping->host;
- key->shared.pgoff = page_head->index;
+ key->shared.pgoff = basepage_index(page);
}
get_futex_key_refs(key);