linux-kernel - Re: [patch] cpuset: fix crash when adding CPUs to an empty set

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:53:32 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] cpuset: fix crash when adding CPUs to an empty set

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:24:52PM +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> > sched: Fix crash if cpuset_cpumask_can_shrink() is passed an empty cpumask
> > 
> > While creating an exclusive cpuset, we passed cpuset_cpumask_can_shrink()
> > an empty cpumask (cur), and dl_bw_of(cpumask_any(cur)) made boom with it.
> > 

Is this the case where a new cpuset doesn't yet have CPUs assigned?

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