sched: Fix race in task_group()
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:36:05 +0000 (13:36 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:47:42 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
commit64ac72f81b1b41819dab596d1524bd5cae4813fd
tree437e934421cb1aa4380318cfc4a584e913c436ac
parentcf0a716684d6743275fdc45c6a43317272fba142
sched: Fix race in task_group()

commit 8323f26ce3425460769605a6aece7a174edaa7d1 upstream.

Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.

Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.

The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/init_task.h
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched.c