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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:35:12 +0200
From: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@...quentis.com>
To: mingo@...e.hu
Cc: christian.engelmayer@...quentis.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] scheduler: access to variable out of scope in
sched_slice()
From: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@...quentis.com>
Access to local variable lw is aliased by usage of pointer load. Access to
pointer load in calc_delta_mine() happens when lw is already out of scope.
Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@...quentis.com>
--
Reported by static code analysis.
--- linux-2.6.30/kernel/sched_fair.c.orig 2009-06-16 10:01:50.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.30/kernel/sched_fair.c 2009-06-16 10:02:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -430,12 +430,13 @@ static u64 sched_slice(struct cfs_rq *cf
for_each_sched_entity(se) {
struct load_weight *load;
+ struct load_weight lw;
cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
load = &cfs_rq->load;
if (unlikely(!se->on_rq)) {
- struct load_weight lw = cfs_rq->load;
+ lw = cfs_rq->load;
update_load_add(&lw, se->load.weight);
load = &lw;
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