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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-04-13 05:50:43 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-04-13 05:50:43 +0200
commit5e6f1fee60a3d80582146835ac01d9808748434f (patch)
tree49452a45442283463705a17408b66c7650c7e405
parentMerge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke... (diff)
parentsched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation (diff)
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Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar: "Fix a NULL pointer dereference crash in certain environments" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index fdab7eb6f351..40bd1e27b1b7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7784,10 +7784,10 @@ static void update_cfs_rq_h_load(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
if (cfs_rq->last_h_load_update == now)
return;
- cfs_rq->h_load_next = NULL;
+ WRITE_ONCE(cfs_rq->h_load_next, NULL);
for_each_sched_entity(se) {
cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
- cfs_rq->h_load_next = se;
+ WRITE_ONCE(cfs_rq->h_load_next, se);
if (cfs_rq->last_h_load_update == now)
break;
}
@@ -7797,7 +7797,7 @@ static void update_cfs_rq_h_load(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
cfs_rq->last_h_load_update = now;
}
- while ((se = cfs_rq->h_load_next) != NULL) {
+ while ((se = READ_ONCE(cfs_rq->h_load_next)) != NULL) {
load = cfs_rq->h_load;
load = div64_ul(load * se->avg.load_avg,
cfs_rq_load_avg(cfs_rq) + 1);