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From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:44:34 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] locking/rwsem-spinlock: Fix EINTR branch in
 __down_write_common()
References: bnc#1060662
Patch-mainline: v4.12.2
Git-commit: a0c4acd2c220376b4e9690e75782d0c0afdaab9f

commit a0c4acd2c220376b4e9690e75782d0c0afdaab9f upstream.

If a writer could been woken up, the above branch

	if (sem->count == 0)
		break;

would have moved us to taking the sem. So, it's
not the time to wake a writer now, and only readers
are allowed now. Thus, 0 must be passed to __rwsem_do_wake().

Next, __rwsem_do_wake() wakes readers unconditionally.
But we mustn't do that if the sem is owned by writer
in the moment. Otherwise, writer and reader own the sem
the same time, which leads to memory corruption in
callers.

rwsem-xadd.c does not need that, as:

  1) the similar check is made lockless there,
  2) in __rwsem_mark_wake::try_reader_grant we test,

that sem is not owned by writer.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@axis.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 17fcbd590d0c "locking/rwsem: Fix down_write_killable() for CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149762063282.19811.9129615532201147826.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
index c65f7989f850..20819df98125 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
@@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ int __sched __down_write_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
 
 out_nolock:
 	list_del(&waiter.list);
-	if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
-		__rwsem_do_wake(sem, 1);
+	if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list) && sem->count >= 0)
+		__rwsem_do_wake(sem, 0);
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
 
 	return -EINTR;
-- 
2.14.2