On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Zheng Yejian wrote:

> From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Fixes: c1e2f0eaf015 ("futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex")
> Link: 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/futex.c | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]>

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