Fix: compat_futex_noasync race condition
The Userspace RCU compatibility layer around sys_futex has a race
condition which makes pretty much all "benchmark" tests hang pretty
quickly on non-Linux systems (tested on Mac OS X).
I narrowed it down to a bug in compat_futex_noasync: this compat layer
uses a single pthread mutex and condition variable for all callers,
independently of their uaddr. The FUTEX_WAKE performs a pthread cond
broadcast to all waiters. FUTEX_WAIT must then compare *uaddr with val
to see which thread has been awakened.
Unfortunately, the check was not done again after each return from
pthread_cond_wait(), thus causing the race.
This race affects threads using the futex_noasync() compatibility layer
concurrently, thus it affects only on non-Linux systems.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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