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

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Message-Id: <20251216093955.2928453-1-buaajxlj@163.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:39:55 +0800
From: Liang Jie <buaajxlj@....com>
To: 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>,
	sched-ext@...ts.linux.dev (open list:SCHEDULER - SCHED_EXT),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list:SCHEDULER)
Cc: liangjie@...iang.com,
	kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched_ext: fix uninitialized ret on alloc_percpu() failure

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>
---
 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)) {
-- 
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