linux-kernel - sched: fix: initialization of sched_domain

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 23:16:16 +0200
From:	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To:	mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, jet.chen@...el.com
Cc:	fengguang.wu@...el.com, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: sched: fix: initialization of sched_domain_topology for NUMA

sched_domain_topology table is a null terminated array. 
Add 1 row in the allocation size that will be used as the last row of the
table.

Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@...el.com>
Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/12/130

---

Hi Ingo and Peter,

This patch fixes the problem that has been reported by Jet Chen 

Regards,
Vincent

 kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 4ea7b3f..205fa17 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6234,7 +6234,7 @@ static void sched_init_numa(void)
 	/* Compute default topology size */
 	for (i = 0; sched_domain_topology[i].mask; i++);
 
-	tl = kzalloc((i + level) *
+	tl = kzalloc((i + level + 1) *
 			sizeof(struct sched_domain_topology_level), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tl)
 		return;
-- 
1.9.1

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