futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock
Avoid futex_unlock_pi returning -EFAULT (which results in deadlock), by
clearing uval before jumping to retry_locked.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 3415e9a..e8935b1 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1670,6 +1670,7 @@
attempt);
if (ret)
goto out;
+ uval = 0;
goto retry_unlocked;
}