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[v2,09/11] locking/mutex: Initialize mutex_waiter::ww_ctx with poison when debugging

Message ID 1480601214-26583-10-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Nicolai Hähnle Dec. 1, 2016, 2:06 p.m. UTC 
From: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>

Help catch cases where mutex_lock is used directly on w/w mutexes, which
otherwise result in the w/w tasks reading uninitialized data.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@mblankhorst.nl>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>
---
 include/linux/poison.h | 1 +
 kernel/locking/mutex.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 51334ed..a395403 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ 
 /********** kernel/mutexes **********/
 #define MUTEX_DEBUG_INIT	0x11
 #define MUTEX_DEBUG_FREE	0x22
+#define MUTEX_POISON_WW_CTX	((void *) 0x500 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
 
 /********** lib/flex_array.c **********/
 #define FLEX_ARRAY_FREE	0x6c	/* for use-after-free poisoning */
diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 296605c..38d173c 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -794,6 +794,10 @@  __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass,
 	if (!use_ww_ctx) {
 		/* add waiting tasks to the end of the waitqueue (FIFO): */
 		list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &lock->wait_list);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
+		waiter.ww_ctx = MUTEX_POISON_WW_CTX;
+#endif
 	} else {
 		/* Add in stamp order, waking up waiters that must back off. */
 		ret = __ww_mutex_add_waiter(&waiter, lock, ww_ctx);