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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de,
	vschneid@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@amperecomputing.com, cl@linux.com,
	christian.loehle@arm.com, vineethr@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Fix panic if pick_eevdf() returns NULL
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:18:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241129091833.GC15382@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241127055610.7076-3-adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:56:09AM +0000, Adam Li wrote:
> pick_eevdf() may return NULL, which triggers NULL pointer
> dereference at pick_next_entity():
> 	struct sched_entity *se = pick_eevdf(cfs_rq);
> 	if (se->sched_delayed)
> 
>     [  297.371198] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000051
>     [  297.406112] CPU: 116 UID: 0 PID: 10328 Comm: Grizzly-worker( Tainted: G        W   E      6.12.0.adam+ #1
>     [  297.597362] Call trace:
>     [  297.599795]  pick_task_fair+0x50/0x150 (P)
>     [  297.603879]  pick_task_fair+0x50/0x150 (L)
>     [  297.607963]  pick_next_task_fair+0x30/0x3c0
>     [  297.612134]  __pick_next_task+0x4c/0x220
>     [  297.616045]  pick_next_task+0x44/0x980

Well, if you look at pick_task_fair() you'll see we'll not get there
unless cfs_rq->nr_running is non-zero, at which point pick_eevdf()
really should NOT be returning NULL.

If it does, something else is broken.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-29  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-27  5:56 [PATCH v2 0/3] sched/fair: Fix NEXT_BUDDY panic and warning Adam Li
2024-11-27  5:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Fix warning if NEXT_BUDDY enabled Adam Li
2024-11-28  7:29   ` K Prateek Nayak
2024-11-29  3:21     ` Adam Li
2024-11-29  4:28       ` K Prateek Nayak
2024-11-29  7:40         ` Adam Li
2024-11-29  8:00           ` K Prateek Nayak
2024-11-29  9:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-11-29 10:15       ` [PATCH] sched/fair: Untangle NEXT_BUDDY and pick_next_task() Peter Zijlstra
2024-11-29 10:18         ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-11-29 10:37           ` Adam Li
2024-11-29 11:45             ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-12-06  6:47         ` Adam Li
2024-12-09 11:00         ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2024-11-29 17:46       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Fix warning if NEXT_BUDDY enabled K Prateek Nayak
2024-11-29 17:53         ` K Prateek Nayak
2024-12-03 16:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-12-03 16:48       ` K Prateek Nayak
2024-12-09 11:00     ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Fix NEXT_BUDDY tip-bot2 for K Prateek Nayak
2024-11-27  5:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Fix panic if pick_eevdf() returns NULL Adam Li
2024-11-29  9:18   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2024-11-27  5:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/fair: Update comments regarding last and skip buddy Adam Li
2025-03-13  8:30   ` Madadi Vineeth Reddy
2025-03-14  2:53     ` Adam Li

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