quoting Linus:

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> so there is no need to recheck the bit in do/while loop, because
> there is no false wakeups now.

You should never assume this. You should assume that there are _always_
false wakeups.

Why? Because Linux has always allowed people to leave wait-queues active,
without being "atomic". For example, the tty read/write layer used to
(still does?)  add itself on the wait-queue _once_, and then leave itself
on the wait-queue while in a loop it does copies from/to user space.
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Unfortunately, this means us. Here's the first fix. Comments?

  - make sure timeouts are observed even if somebody left us on a queue