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Message-ID: <20160414153111.GC2975@worktop.cust.blueprintrf.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:31:11 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Fix unprotected PI access
 in enqueue_task_dl()

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 07:37:06PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> We access @pi_task's data without any lock in enqueue_task_dl(), though
> checked "dl_prio(pi_task->normal_prio)" condition, that's not enough.

The proper fix is to ensure that pi_task is guaranteed to be blocked.

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