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The commit91d2a812df("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner") will allow a recently woken up waiting writer to spin on the owner. Unfortunately, if the owner happens to be RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN, the code will incorrectly spin on it leading to a kernel crash. This is fixed by passing the proper non-spinnable bits to rwsem_spin_on_owner() so that RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN will be treated as a non-spinnable target. Fixes:91d2a812df("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner") Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200115154336.8679-1-longman@redhat.com
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