Patch "futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
futex-drop-refcount-if-requeue_pi-acquired-the-rtmutex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:07:38 +0000
Subject: futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

commit fb75a4282d0d9a3c7c44d940582c2d226cf3acfb upstream.

If the proxy lock in the requeue loop acquires the rtmutex for a waiter then it acquired also refcount on the pi_state related to the futex, but the waiter side does not drop the reference count.

Add the missing free_pi_state() call.

---
 kernel/futex.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

@@ -2755,6 +2755,11 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __u
 		if (q.pi_state && (q.pi_state->owner != current)) {
 			spin_lock(q.lock_ptr);
 			ret = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr2, &q, current);
+			/*
+			 * Drop the reference to the pi state which
+			 * the requeue_pi() code acquired for us.
+			 */
+			free_pi_state(q.pi_state);
 			spin_unlock(q.lock_ptr);
 		}
 	} else {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/itimers-handle-relative-timers-with-config_time_low_res-proper.patch queue-4.4/futex-drop-refcount-if-requeue_pi-acquired-the-rtmutex.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-pat-avoid-truncation-when-converting-cpa-numpages-to-address.patch queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-handle-the-caching-of-4-byte-nocache-copies-properly-in-__copy_user_nocache.patch queue-4.4/timerfd-handle-relative-timers-with-config_time_low_res-proper.patch queue-4.4/posix-timers-handle-relative-timers-with-config_time_low_res-proper.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-handle-large-pages-properly.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-types-used-in-pgprot-cacheability-flags-translations.patch queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-make-the-__copy_user_nocache-assembly-code-more-readable.patch