linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] scheduler fix

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Message-ID: <20161018111720.GA14002@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:17:20 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] scheduler fix

Linus,

Please pull the latest sched-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: 9cfb38a7ba5a9c27c1af8093fb1af4b699c0a441 sched/fair: Fix sched domains NULL dereference in select_idle_sibling()

Fix a crash that can trigger when racing with CPU hotplug: we didn't use 
sched-domains data structures carefully enough in select_idle_cpu().

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Wanpeng Li (1):
      sched/fair: Fix sched domains NULL dereference in select_idle_sibling()


 kernel/sched/fair.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 502e95a6e927..8b03fb5d1b9e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5471,13 +5471,18 @@ static inline int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd
  */
 static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int target)
 {
-	struct sched_domain *this_sd = rcu_dereference(*this_cpu_ptr(&sd_llc));
-	u64 avg_idle = this_rq()->avg_idle;
-	u64 avg_cost = this_sd->avg_scan_cost;
+	struct sched_domain *this_sd;
+	u64 avg_cost, avg_idle = this_rq()->avg_idle;
 	u64 time, cost;
 	s64 delta;
 	int cpu, wrap;
 
+	this_sd = rcu_dereference(*this_cpu_ptr(&sd_llc));
+	if (!this_sd)
+		return -1;
+
+	avg_cost = this_sd->avg_scan_cost;
+
 	/*
 	 * Due to large variance we need a large fuzz factor; hackbench in
 	 * particularly is sensitive here.