From 42eb088ed246a5a817bb45a8b32fe234cf1c0f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:41:49 +0100 Subject: sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy Commit 37dc6b50cee9 ("sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus") forgot to clear 'sd_busy' under some conditions leading to a possible NULL deref in set_cpu_sd_state_idle(). Reported-by: Anton Blanchard Cc: Preeti U Murthy Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131118113701.GF3866@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index c1808606ee5f..a1591ca7eb5a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4910,8 +4910,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu) if (sd) { id = cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd)); size = cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd)); - rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd->parent); + sd = sd->parent; /* sd_busy */ } + rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd); rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu), sd); per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu) = size; -- cgit v1.2.3