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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2020-11-26 10:54:04 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2020-11-27 09:59:13 -0300
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nptl: Add EOVERFLOW checks for futex calls
Some futex-internal calls require additional check for EOVERFLOW (as
indicated by [1] [2] [3]).  For both mutex and rwlock code, EOVERFLOW is
handle as ETIMEDOUT; since it indicate to the caller that the blocking
operation could not be issued.

For mutex it avoids a possible issue where PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST_* might
assume EOVERFLOW indicate futex has succeed, and for PTHREAD_MUTEX_PP_*
it avoid a potential busy infinite loop.  For rwlock and semaphores, it
also avoids potential busy infinite loops.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu, although EOVERFLOW
won't be possible with current usage (since all timeouts on 32-bit
architectures with 32-bit time_t support will be in the range of
32-bit time_t).

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-November/120079.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-November/120080.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-November/120127.html
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