linux-kernel - [PATCH] fix potential NULL derference of doms

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Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:20:16 +0800
From:	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
To:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix potential NULL derference of doms_cur

If CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled but doms_cur alloc failed
in arch_init_sched_domains(), doms_cur will move back to
fallback_doms. But this time, fallback_doms has not been
initialized yet.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e27a536..6dc3e06 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -9329,6 +9329,7 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void)
 	cpumask_var_t non_isolated_cpus;
 
 	alloc_cpumask_var(&non_isolated_cpus, GFP_KERNEL);
+	alloc_cpumask_var(&fallback_doms, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_NUMA)
 	sched_group_nodes_bycpu = kzalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(void **),
@@ -9360,7 +9361,6 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void)
 	sched_init_granularity();
 	free_cpumask_var(non_isolated_cpus);
 
-	alloc_cpumask_var(&fallback_doms, GFP_KERNEL);
 	init_sched_rt_class();
 }
 #else
-- 
1.6.0.4

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