[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "locking/rtmutex: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference on deadlock" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    locking/rtmutex: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference on deadlock

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From ba0eb8f17e0d40cf6aa4a77206e43e22847f3947 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:43:43 +0100
Subject: locking/rtmutex: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference on deadlock

commit 8d1e5a1a1ccf5ae9d8a5a0ee7960202ccb0c5429 upstream.

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 <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424187823-19600-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 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 fc605941b9b8..f9878d16b80b 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -936,7 +936,8 @@ rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
 	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

 	if (unlikely(ret)) {
-		remove_waiter(lock, &waiter);
+		if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock))
+			remove_waiter(lock, &waiter);
 		rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(ret, detect_deadlock, &waiter);
 	}