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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2015-07-10 00:25:47 +0200
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2015-07-19 21:51:17 +0200
commitcda2495ab448119db5ae7d3d1cdc9c6d44934122 (patch)
treed664ffdc74efc1b7b14cb14e5e7361e535364b14
parent6522ed40cc5b3d570cb7f2baccfbaefe339326c7 (diff)
downloadmisc-uprobes/core.tar.gz
uprobes: fix the waitqueue_active() check in xol_free_insn_slot()uprobes/core
The xol_free_insn_slot()->waitqueue_active() check is buggy. We need mb() after we set the conditon for wait_event(), or xol_take_insn_slot() can miss the wakeup. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/uprobes.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 2d5b7bd337a7c0..4e5e9798aa0c0d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1337,6 +1337,7 @@ static void xol_free_insn_slot(struct task_struct *tsk)
clear_bit(slot_nr, area->bitmap);
atomic_dec(&area->slot_count);
+ smp_mb__after_atomic(); /* pairs with prepare_to_wait() */
if (waitqueue_active(&area->wq))
wake_up(&area->wq);