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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 8d1e5a1a1c locking/rtmutex: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference on deadlock
With task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() returning early -EDEADLK we never
add the waiter to the waitqueue. Later, we try to remove it via
remove_waiter() and go boom in rt_mutex_top_waiter() because
rb_entry() gives a NULL pointer.

( Tested on v3.18-RT where rtmutex is used for regular mutex and I
  tried to get one twice in a row. )

Not sure when this started but I guess 397335f004 ("rtmutex: Fix
deadlock detector for real") or commit 3d5c9340d1 ("rtmutex:
Handle deadlock detection smarter").

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # for v3.16 and later kernels
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424187823-19600-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18 10:20:32 +01:00
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