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Message-ID: <20131127132243.GD10022@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:22:43 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	bitbucket@...ine.de, benh@...nel.crashing.org, anton@...ba.org,
	Morten.Rasmussen@....com, pjt@...gle.com, mikey@...ling.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] in sched fair on v3.13-rc1+ doing hotplug

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 08:13:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>         atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);  <<---- BUG
> unlock:
>         rcu_read_unlock();
> }

tip/sched/urgent has this one:

---
commit 42eb088ed246a5a817bb45a8b32fe234cf1c0f8b
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 19 16:41:49 2013 +0100

    sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy
    
    Commit 37dc6b50cee9 ("sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched
    domains to update nr_busy_cpus") forgot to clear 'sd_busy' under some
    conditions leading to a possible NULL deref in set_cpu_sd_state_idle().
    
    Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
    Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131118113701.GF3866@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c1808606ee5f..a1591ca7eb5a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4910,8 +4910,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 	if (sd) {
 		id = cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd));
 		size = cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd));
-		rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd->parent);
+		sd = sd->parent; /* sd_busy */
 	}
+	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd);
 
 	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu), sd);
 	per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu) = size;
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