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locking: rtmutex: Fix wake_q logic in task_blocks_on_rt_mutex

Anders had bisected a crash using PREEMPT_RT with linux-next and
isolated it down to commit 894d1b3db41c ("locking/mutex: Remove
wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock"), where it seemed the
wake_q structure was somehow getting corrupted causing a null
pointer traversal.

I was able to easily repoduce this with PREEMPT_RT and managed
to isolate down that through various call stacks we were
actually calling wake_up_q() twice on the same wake_q.

I found that in the problematic commit, I had added the
wake_up_q() call in task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() around
__ww_mutex_add_waiter(), following a similar pattern in
__mutex_lock_common().

However, its just wrong. We haven't dropped the lock->wait_lock,
so its contrary to the point of the original patch. And it
didn't match the __mutex_lock_common() logic of re-initializing
the wake_q after calling it midway in the stack.

Looking at it now, the wake_up_q() call is incorrect and should
just be removed. So drop the erronious logic I had added.

Fixes: 894d1b3db41c ("locking/mutex: Remove wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6afb936f-17c7-43fa-90e0-b9e780866097@app.fastmail.com/
Reported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241114190051.552665-1-jstultz@google.com

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John Stultz and committed by
Peter Zijlstra
82f9cc09 0664e2c3

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kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
··· 1248 1248 1249 1249 /* Check whether the waiter should back out immediately */ 1250 1250 rtm = container_of(lock, struct rt_mutex, rtmutex); 1251 - preempt_disable(); 1252 1251 res = __ww_mutex_add_waiter(waiter, rtm, ww_ctx, wake_q); 1253 - wake_up_q(wake_q); 1254 - preempt_enable(); 1255 1252 if (res) { 1256 1253 raw_spin_lock(&task->pi_lock); 1257 1254 rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);