sched/fair: WARN() and refuse to set buddy when !se->on_rq
authorDaniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Wed, 10 May 2017 20:11:39 +0000 (06:11 +1000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:26:52 +0000 (12:26 +0200)
commitc5ae366e12b2bd56fc7d7e9d484836bec9ddc110
tree1692a39f932899f7d3cc5fab6c94fe71b9e9803b
parent6d3aed3d8a0573d0a6eb1160ccd0a0713f4dbc2f
sched/fair: WARN() and refuse to set buddy when !se->on_rq

If we set a next or last buddy for a se that is not on_rq, we will
end up taking a NULL pointer dereference in wakeup_preempt_entity
via pick_next_task_fair.

Detect when we would be about to do that, throw a warning and
then refuse to actually set it.

This has been suggested at least twice:

  https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146651668921468&w=2
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/16/663

I recently had to debug a problem with these (we hadn't backported
Konstantin's patches in this area) and this would have saved a lot
of time/pain.

Just do it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510201139.16236-1-dja@axtens.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c