From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Konstantin Khlebnikov , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Ben Segall , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Ben Pineau Subject: [PATCH 4.4 050/103] sched/fair: Do not announce throttled next buddy in dequeue_task_fair() Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:09:16 +0200 Message-Id: <20170523200901.038568886@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170523200856.903752266@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170523200856.903752266@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov commit 754bd598be9bbc953bc709a9e8ed7f3188bfb9d7 upstream. Hierarchy could be already throttled at this point. Throttled next buddy could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair(). Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Ben Segall Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146608183552.21905.15924473394414832071.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ben Pineau Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -4233,15 +4233,14 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq /* Don't dequeue parent if it has other entities besides us */ if (cfs_rq->load.weight) { + /* Avoid re-evaluating load for this entity: */ + se = parent_entity(se); /* * Bias pick_next to pick a task from this cfs_rq, as * p is sleeping when it is within its sched_slice. */ - if (task_sleep && parent_entity(se)) - set_next_buddy(parent_entity(se)); - - /* avoid re-evaluating load for this entity */ - se = parent_entity(se); + if (task_sleep && se && !throttled_hierarchy(cfs_rq)) + set_next_buddy(se); break; } flags |= DEQUEUE_SLEEP;