In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

futex: Prevent robust futex exit race some more

A robust futex unlock stores 0 over the whole futex value - wiping
FUTEX_WAITERS - and wakes a single waiter. That wakeup is a one-shot
notification: the protocol relies on its recipient to either acquire the
futex (and eventually unlock while aware of the remaining contention) or
re-arm FUTEX_WAITERS before sleeping again.  If the woken waiter is killed
before it can do either, the kernel must jump in and wake the next task
down the line.

This is a known complication of the futex protocol with a previous
partial fix in commit ca16d5bee598 ("futex: Prevent robust futex exit
race"). Unfortunately, that fix is insufficient.

If a third task re-acquired the futex through the uncontended fast
path in the meantime, the notification is lost: robust exit processing
sees that it is owned by another task and does nothing, while the new
owner sees no FUTEX_WAITERS when it unlocks and wakes nobody.
The remaining waiters sleep forever behind a free futex:

  A owns the futex, B and C sleep in FUTEX_WAIT
                                        uval == A | FUTEX_WAITERS
  A robust unlock: store 0, FUTEX_WAKE(1) wakes B
                                        uval == 0
  D fast path acquire: cmpxchg(0 -> D)
                                        uval == D, no FUTEX_WAITERS
  B killed before acting on the wakeup
  B exit walk, pending op: owner D != B -> no action
  D unlock: no FUTEX_WAITERS -> no wake
                                        C sleeps forever

This is clearly a shortcoming in the implementation, which fails to keep
the FUTEX_WAITERS bit consistent.

Work around this by augmenting the robust list exit processing to also
perform the extra wakeup if the futex word is owned by another thread but
FUTEX_WAITERS is not set.

This does not fix the problem of a non-contended take over/release and free
sequence, which has been discussed for years and has been addressed by
commit 3ca9595d9fb6 ("futex: Add support for unlocking robust futexes") and
subsequent changes, but failed to take the problem described above into
account.

A more complete solution which is based on the in kernel unlock of
contended robust futexes has been discussed in the context of this change
and should show up in mainline sooner than later.

[ tglx: Amend change log slightly and fixup coding style ]

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33bfa85458105d6169ebdb697f692b8bb8025bae

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d4514ca9cdf61fec4ec634cf50386f6f7e69748

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b8c53263f8878bdd12c87e147ac6feca5c05211

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cf710e70f9bb8ea75f759ebed09871801315992

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83b0f71d5a313a765754acab51d2ecc5de76e0b9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/925628656b73b70930972ccde421de4f758d8650

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c2b7b86a946b6b172bce44d74553da2323a36c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa5c571901c6b22b58373693a4bf889ecab11ff5

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