On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 10:17 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: 
> On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 10:11 +0800, Jia He wrote: 
> > In commit 0a2b9d4c,the update of semaphore's sem_otime(last semop time)
> > was removed because he wanted to move setting sem->sem_otime to one
> > place. But after that, the initial semop() will not set the otime
> > because its sem_op value is 0(in semtimedop,will not change
> > otime if alter == 1).
> > 
> > the error case:
> > process_a(server)       process_b(client)
> > semget()
> > semctl(SETVAL)
> > semop()
> >                         semget()
> >                         setctl(IP_STAT)
> >                         for(;;) {               <--not successful here
> >                           check until sem_otime > 0
> >                         }
> 
> Why not..

(pokes evolution's don't-munge-me button)

ipc,sem: Create semaphores with plausible sem_otime.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbuc...@online.de>

diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index 4108889..f2564d7 100644
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -471,19 +471,20 @@ static int newary(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct 
ipc_params *params)
        ns->used_sems += nsems;
 
        sma->sem_base = (struct sem *) &sma[1];
+       sma->complex_count = 0;
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->pending_alter);
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->pending_const);
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->list_id);
+       sma->sem_nsems = nsems;
+       sma->sem_ctime = get_seconds();
 
        for (i = 0; i < nsems; i++) {
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->sem_base[i].pending_alter);
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->sem_base[i].pending_const);
                spin_lock_init(&sma->sem_base[i].lock);
+               sma->sem_base[i].sem_otime = sma->sem_ctime;
        }
 
-       sma->complex_count = 0;
-       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->pending_alter);
-       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->pending_const);
-       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sma->list_id);
-       sma->sem_nsems = nsems;
-       sma->sem_ctime = get_seconds();
        sem_unlock(sma, -1);
        rcu_read_unlock();
 


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