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commit 56222b21 ("futex: Drop hb->lock before enqueueing on the
rtmutex") changed the locking rules in the futex code so that the hash
bucket lock is not longer held while the waiter is enqueued into the
rtmutex wait list. This made the lock and the unlock path symmetric, but
unfortunately the possible early exit from __rt_mutex_proxy_start() due to
a detected deadlock was not updated accordingly. That allows a concurrent
unlocker to observe inconsitent state which triggers the warning in the
unlock path.

futex_lock_pi()                         futex_unlock_pi()
  lock(hb->lock)
  queue(hb_waiter)				lock(hb->lock)
  lock(rtmutex->wait_lock)
  unlock(hb->lock)
                                        // acquired hb->lock
                                        hb_waiter = futex_top_waiter()
                                        lock(rtmutex->wait_lock)
  __rt_mutex_proxy_start()
     ---> fail
          remove(rtmutex_waiter);
     ---> returns -EDEADLOC...