linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq

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Message-Id: <20251113114355.24572-1-qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:43:55 +0800
From: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@...ux.dev>
To: tj@...nel.org,
	void@...ifault.com,
	arighi@...dia.com,
	changwoo@...lia.com
Cc: sched-ext@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	qiang.zhang@...ux.dev
Subject: [PATCH] sched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq_workfn()

For PREEMPT_RT=y kernels, the deferred_irq_workfn() is executed in
the per-cpu irq_work/* task context and not disable-irq, if the rq
returned by container_of() is current CPU's rq, the following scenarios
may occur:

lock(&rq->__lock);
<Interrupt>
  lock(&rq->__lock);

This commit use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to replace init_irq_work() to
initialize rq->scx.deferred_irq_work, make the deferred_irq_workfn()
is always invoked in hard-irq context.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@...ux.dev>
---
 kernel/sched/ext.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
index 2b0e88206d07..747b0d8528ab 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -5225,7 +5225,7 @@ void __init init_sched_ext_class(void)
 		BUG_ON(!zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&rq->scx.cpus_to_kick_if_idle, GFP_KERNEL, n));
 		BUG_ON(!zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&rq->scx.cpus_to_preempt, GFP_KERNEL, n));
 		BUG_ON(!zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&rq->scx.cpus_to_wait, GFP_KERNEL, n));
-		init_irq_work(&rq->scx.deferred_irq_work, deferred_irq_workfn);
+		rq->scx.deferred_irq_work = IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD(deferred_irq_workfn);
 		init_irq_work(&rq->scx.kick_cpus_irq_work, kick_cpus_irq_workfn);
 
 		if (cpu_online(cpu))
-- 
2.17.1