sched-urgent-2020-07-19
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19 Jul 12:55
- Plug a load average accounting race which was introduced with a recent optimization casing load average to show bogus numbers. - Fix the rseq CPU id initialization for new tasks. sched_fork() does not update the rseq CPU id so the id is the stale id of the parent task, which can cause user space data corruption. - Handle a 0 return value of task_h_load() correctly in the load balancer, which does not decrease imbalance and therefore pulls until the maximum number of loops is reached, which might be all tasks just created by a fork bomb.