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sched/fair: Do not announce throttled next buddy in dequeue_task_fair()
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Hierarchy could be already throttled at this point. Throttled next
buddy could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146608183552.21905.15924473394414832071.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jun 24, 2016
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9 changes: 4 additions & 5 deletions kernel/sched/fair.c
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Expand Up @@ -4537,15 +4537,14 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)

/* Don't dequeue parent if it has other entities besides us */
if (cfs_rq->load.weight) {
/* Avoid re-evaluating load for this entity: */
se = parent_entity(se);
/*
* Bias pick_next to pick a task from this cfs_rq, as
* p is sleeping when it is within its sched_slice.
*/
if (task_sleep && parent_entity(se))
set_next_buddy(parent_entity(se));

/* avoid re-evaluating load for this entity */
se = parent_entity(se);
if (task_sleep && se && !throttled_hierarchy(cfs_rq))
set_next_buddy(se);
break;
}
flags |= DEQUEUE_SLEEP;
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