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From:
Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@...>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...>, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
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Re: futex local DoS on most architectures
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 8:50 am
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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> We have to disable the complete PI/robust functionality for those > archs, which do not implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(). The > code in question relies on a valid implementation and does not expect > -ENOSYS, which is returned by the stub implementation in > asm-generic/futex.h > > Pointed out by: Mikael Pettersson, Riku Voipio and Adrian Bunk >
Original credits for finding this issue belong to Lennert Buytenhek.
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> This patch is intended for easy backporting and needs to be cleaned up > further for current mainline. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Looks good for me and kernel no longer deadlocks with this patch! --
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futex local DoS on most architectures
, Adrian Bunk
, (Mon Feb 11, 9:07 am)
Re: futex local DoS on most architectures
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Mon Feb 11, 9:59 am)
Re: futex local DoS on most architectures
, Andrew Morton
, (Thu Feb 14, 5:46 pm)
Re: futex local DoS on most architectures
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Thu Feb 14, 9:19 pm)
[PATCH 2/2] futex: runtime enable pi and robust functionality
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Thu Feb 14, 9:36 pm)
[PATCH 1/2] futex: fix init order
, Thomas Gleixner
, (Thu Feb 14, 9:23 pm)
Re: futex local DoS on most architectures
, Riku Voipio
, (Tue Feb 12, 8:50 am)
Re: futex local DoS on most architectures
, Lennert Buytenhek
, (Mon Feb 11, 10:16 am)
Re: futex local DoS on most architectures
, Mikael Pettersson
, (Mon Feb 11, 9:56 am)
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