linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched_ext: fix uninitialized ret on alloc

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Message-Id: <DEZQQIB8OGAO.30E5KVJMY54D@etsalapatis.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:19:52 -0500
From: "Emil Tsalapatis" <emil@...alapatis.com>
To: "Liang Jie" <buaajxlj@....com>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@...nel.org>, "David
 Vernet" <void@...ifault.com>, "Andrea Righi" <arighi@...dia.com>, "Changwoo
 Min" <changwoo@...lia.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, "Peter
 Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>, "Juri Lelli" <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
 "Vincent Guittot" <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>, "Dietmar Eggemann"
 <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>, "Ben
 Segall" <bsegall@...gle.com>, "Mel Gorman" <mgorman@...e.de>, "Valentin
 Schneider" <vschneid@...hat.com>, "open list:SCHEDULER - SCHED_EXT"
 <sched-ext@...ts.linux.dev>, "open list:SCHEDULER"
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: <liangjie@...iang.com>, "kernel test robot" <lkp@...el.com>, "Dan
 Carpenter" <error27@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched_ext: fix uninitialized ret on alloc_percpu()
 failure

On Tue Dec 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM EST, Liang Jie wrote:
> From: Liang Jie <liangjie@...iang.com>
>
> Smatch reported:
>
>   kernel/sched/ext.c:5332 scx_alloc_and_add_sched() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'
>
> In scx_alloc_and_add_sched(), the alloc_percpu() failure path jumps to
> err_free_gdsqs without initializing @ret. That can lead to returning
> ERR_PTR(0), which violates the ERR_PTR() convention and confuses
> callers.
>
> Set @ret to -ENOMEM before jumping to the error path when
> alloc_percpu() fails.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202512141601.yAXDAeA9-lkp@intel.com/
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> Fixes: c201ea1578d3 ("sched_ext: Move event_stats_cpu into scx_sched")
> Signed-off-by: Liang Jie <liangjie@...iang.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@...alapatis.com>

>  kernel/sched/ext.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
> index 05f5a49e9649..8ea243b04dc9 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
> @@ -4761,8 +4761,10 @@ static struct scx_sched *scx_alloc_and_add_sched(struct sched_ext_ops *ops)
>  	}
>  
>  	sch->pcpu = alloc_percpu(struct scx_sched_pcpu);
> -	if (!sch->pcpu)
> +	if (!sch->pcpu) {
> +		ret = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto err_free_gdsqs;
> +	}
>  
>  	sch->helper = kthread_run_worker(0, "sched_ext_helper");
>  	if (IS_ERR(sch->helper)) {