locking/futex: Check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads attach_to_pi_owner() checks p->mm to prevent attaching to kthreads and this looks doubly wrong: 1. It should actually check PF_KTHREAD, kthread can do use_mm(). 2. If this task is not kthread and it is actually the lock owner we can wrongly return -EPERM instead of -ESRCH or retry-if-EAGAIN. And note that this wrong EPERM is the likely case unless the exiting task is (auto)reaped quickly, we check ->mm before PF_EXITING. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150202140536.GA26406@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 4eeb63d..1f6d646 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ if (!p) return -ESRCH; - if (!p->mm) { + if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { put_task_struct(p); return -EPERM; }