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futex: Fix argument handling in futex_lock_pi() calls

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This patch fixes two separate buglets in calls to futex_lock_pi():

  * Eliminate unused 'detect' argument
  * Change unused 'timeout' argument of FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI to NULL

The 'detect' argument of futex_lock_pi() seems never to have been
used (when it was included with the initial PI mutex implementation
in Linux 2.6.18, all checks against its value were disabled by
ANDing against 0 (i.e., if (detect... && 0)), and with
commit 778e9a9c3e, any mention of
this argument in futex_lock_pi() went way altogether. Its presence
now serves only to confuse readers of the code, by giving the
impression that the futex() FUTEX_LOCK_PI operation actually does
use the 'val' argument. This patch removes the argument.

The futex_lock_pi() call that corresponds to FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI includes
'timeout' as one of its arguments. This misleads the reader into thinking
that the FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI operation does employ timeouts for some sensible
purpose; but it does not.  Indeed, it cannot, because the checks at the
start of sys_futex() exclude FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI from the set of operations
that do copy_from_user() on the timeout argument. So, in the
FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI futex_lock_pi() call it would be simplest to change
'timeout' to 'NULL'. This patch does that.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54B96646.8010200@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-01-16 20:28:06 +01:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 40a3550340
commit 996636ddae
1 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -2258,7 +2258,7 @@ static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart)
* if there are waiters then it will block, it does PI, etc. (Due to
* races the kernel might see a 0 value of the futex too.)
*/
static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, int detect,
static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags,
ktime_t *time, int trylock)
{
struct hrtimer_sleeper timeout, *to = NULL;
@ -2953,11 +2953,11 @@ long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
case FUTEX_WAKE_OP:
return futex_wake_op(uaddr, flags, uaddr2, val, val2, val3);
case FUTEX_LOCK_PI:
return futex_lock_pi(uaddr, flags, val, timeout, 0);
return futex_lock_pi(uaddr, flags, timeout, 0);
case FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI:
return futex_unlock_pi(uaddr, flags);
case FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI:
return futex_lock_pi(uaddr, flags, 0, timeout, 1);
return futex_lock_pi(uaddr, flags, NULL, 1);
case FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI:
val3 = FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY;
return futex_wait_requeue_pi(uaddr, flags, val, timeout, val3,