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 <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>