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-rw-r--r--linux-user/syscall.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index 6182a272ec..ee82a2da4e 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -8631,7 +8631,20 @@ abi_long do_syscall(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1,
#ifdef TARGET_NR_set_robust_list
case TARGET_NR_set_robust_list:
- goto unimplemented_nowarn;
+ case TARGET_NR_get_robust_list:
+ /* The ABI for supporting robust futexes has userspace pass
+ * the kernel a pointer to a linked list which is updated by
+ * userspace after the syscall; the list is walked by the kernel
+ * when the thread exits. Since the linked list in QEMU guest
+ * memory isn't a valid linked list for the host and we have
+ * no way to reliably intercept the thread-death event, we can't
+ * support these. Silently return ENOSYS so that guest userspace
+ * falls back to a non-robust futex implementation (which should
+ * be OK except in the corner case of the guest crashing while
+ * holding a mutex that is shared with another process via
+ * shared memory).
+ */
+ goto unimplemented_nowarn;
#endif
#if defined(TARGET_NR_utimensat) && defined(__NR_utimensat)