Commit e5480572 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Thomas Gleixner

locking/rtmutex: Fix ww_mutex deadlock check

Dan reported that rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() can be called with
.orig_waiter == NULL however commit a055fcc1 ("locking/rtmutex: Return
success on deadlock for ww_mutex waiters") unconditionally dereferences it.

Since both call-sites that have .orig_waiter == NULL don't care for the
return value, simply disable the deadlock squash by adding the NULL check.

Notably, both callers use the deadlock condition as a termination condition
for the iteration; once detected, it is sure that (de)boosting is done.
Arguably step [3] would be a more natural termination point, but it's
dubious whether adding a third deadlock detection state would improve the
code.

Fixes: a055fcc1 ("locking/rtmutex: Return success on deadlock for ww_mutex waiters")
Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YS9La56fHMiCCo75@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
parent d66e3ede
......@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ static int __sched rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(struct task_struct *task,
* other configuration and we fail to report; also, see
* lockdep.
*/
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && orig_waiter->ww_ctx)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && orig_waiter && orig_waiter->ww_ctx)
ret = 0;
raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
......
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