Re: NULL pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair

Quentin Perret
2019-11-07T19:28:01Z

On Thursday 07 Nov 2019 at 19:43:56 (+0100), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> But you mean something like:
>
> for (class = prev->sched_class; class; class = class->next) {
> if (class->balance(rq, rf))
> break;
> }
>
> put_prev_task(rq, prev);
>
> for_each_class(class) {
> p = class->pick_next_task(rq);
> if (p)
> return p;
> }
>
> BUG();
>
> like?

Right, something like that, though what I had was basically doing the
pull from within the pick_next_task_*() functions directly, like we were
doing before. I'm now seeing how easy it is to get this wrong, and that
even good-looking code in this area can be broken in very subtle ways,
so I didn't feel comfortable refactoring again so close to rc7. If you
feel more confident, I'm more than happy to test a patch implemeting the
above :)

> I had convinced myself we didn't need that, but that DL to RT case is
> pesky and might require it after all.

Yep, I don't see a way to avoid iterating all classes to do the balance,
one way or another ...

Thanks,
Quentin