sched: Fix race in task_group()
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:36:05 +0000 (13:36 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 9 Aug 2012 23:11:14 +0000 (00:11 +0100)
commitb75bfc42974aaf089ae7eae5d3c6bf362f57ee93
treefdccebf8528123755b151ae4d504a6bb3c286368
parent46159f6e9d9a41a0ec1914f983e7ca6e416330c1
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>
(backported to previous file names and layout)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
include/linux/init_task.h
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched.c