From 8d1e5a1a1ccf5ae9d8a5a0ee7960202ccb0c5429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:43:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 397335f004f4 ("rtmutex: Fix deadlock detector for real") or commit 3d5c9340d194 ("rtmutex: Handle deadlock detection smarter"). Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: # 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 --- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c index 3059bc2f022d..e16e5542bf13 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c @@ -1193,7 +1193,8 @@ rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state, ret = __rt_mutex_slowlock(lock, state, timeout, &waiter); if (unlikely(ret)) { - remove_waiter(lock, &waiter); + if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock)) + remove_waiter(lock, &waiter); rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(ret, chwalk, &waiter); } -- 2.20.1