linux-kernel - [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks

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Date:	Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:16:25 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks

Commit-ID:  49557e620339cb134127b5bfbcfecc06b77d0232
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/49557e620339cb134127b5bfbcfecc06b77d0232
Author:     Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
AuthorDate: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:37:20 +1030
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:48:54 +0100

sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks

I got a boot crash when forcing cpumasks offstack on 32 bit,
because find_new_ilb() returned 3 on my UP system (nohz.cpu_mask
wasn't zeroed).

AFAICT the others need to be zeroed too: only
nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask is initialized before use.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
LKML-Reference: <200911022037.21282.rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index cae6700..bf21adb 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -9535,13 +9535,13 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 	current->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
 
 	/* Allocate the nohz_cpu_mask if CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */
-	alloc_cpumask_var(&nohz_cpu_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	zalloc_cpumask_var(&nohz_cpu_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
-	alloc_cpumask_var(&nohz.cpu_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	zalloc_cpumask_var(&nohz.cpu_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
 	alloc_cpumask_var(&nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
 #endif
-	alloc_cpumask_var(&cpu_isolated_map, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	zalloc_cpumask_var(&cpu_isolated_map, GFP_NOWAIT);
 #endif /* SMP */
 
 	perf_event_init();
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