The handle_exit_race() function is defined in commit 9c3f398603
("futex: Cure exit race"), which never returns -EBUSY. This results
in a small piece of dead code in the attach_to_pi_owner() function:
int ret = handle_exit_race(uaddr, uval, p); /* Never return -EBUSY */
...
if (ret == -EBUSY)
*exiting = p; /* dead code */
The return value -EBUSY is added to handle_exit_race() in upsteam
commit ac31c7ff86 ("futex: Provide distinct return value when
owner is exiting"). This commit was incorporated into v4.9.255, before
the function handle_exit_race() was introduced, whitout Modify
handle_exit_race().
To fix dead code, extract the change of handle_exit_race() from
commit ac31c7ff86 ("futex: Provide distinct return value when owner
is exiting"), re-incorporated.
Lee writes:
This commit takes the remaining functional snippet of:
ac31c7ff86 ("futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting")
... and is the correct fix for this issue.
Fixes: 9c3f398603 ("futex: Cure exit race")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9.258
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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