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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9.257 1/1] futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Date:   Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:11:43 +0800
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On 2021/2/22 20:36, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 08:20:38PM +0800, Zhengyejian (Zetta) wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2021/2/22 20:07, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:54:24AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Zheng Yejian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> commit a97cb0e7b3f4c6297fd857055ae8e895f402f501 upstream.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both Geert and DaveJ reported that the recent futex commit:
>>>>>
>>>>>     c1e2f0eaf015 ("futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex")
>>>>>
>>>>> introduced a problem with setting OWNER_DEAD. We set the bit on an
>>>>> uninitialized variable and then entirely optimize it away as a
>>>>> dead-store.
>>>>>
>>>>> Move the setting of the bit to where it is more useful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
>>>>> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
>>>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>>>>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>>>>> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
>>>>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>>>>> Fixes: c1e2f0eaf015 ("futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex")
>>>>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180122103947.GD2228@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    kernel/futex.c | 7 +++----
>>>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> This does not apply to the 4.9.y tree at all right now, are you all sure
>>> you got the backport correct?
>>>
>>> confused,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>> .
>>>
>> I make the patch basing on 282aeb477a10 ("Linux 4.9.257").
>> Should I base on f0cf73f13b39 ("Linux 4.9.258-rc1")?
> 
> Yes please as I think this is already there.
> 
> How about just waiting for the next release to come out, I will push out
> the 4.4 and 4.9 -rc releases right now as well to give everyone a chance
> to sync up properly.
Ok, I will rebase this patch then.
Thanks for your suggestion.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> .
>