4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 094f469172e00d6ab0a3130b0e01c83b3cf3a98d upstream. Cgroup created inside throttled group must inherit current throttle_count. Broken throttle_count allows to nominate throttled entries as a next buddy, later this leads to null pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair(). This patch initialize cfs_rq->throttle_count at first enqueue: laziness allows to skip locking all rq at group creation. Lazy approach also allows to skip full sub-tree scan at throttling hierarchy (not in this patch). Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146608182119.21870.8439834428248129633.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Pineau <benjamin.pineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -3918,6 +3918,26 @@ static void check_enqueue_throttle(struc if (!cfs_bandwidth_used()) return; + /* Synchronize hierarchical throttle counter: */ + if (unlikely(!cfs_rq->throttle_uptodate)) { + struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq); + struct cfs_rq *pcfs_rq; + struct task_group *tg; + + cfs_rq->throttle_uptodate = 1; + + /* Get closest up-to-date node, because leaves go first: */ + for (tg = cfs_rq->tg->parent; tg; tg = tg->parent) { + pcfs_rq = tg->cfs_rq[cpu_of(rq)]; + if (pcfs_rq->throttle_uptodate) + break; + } + if (tg) { + cfs_rq->throttle_count = pcfs_rq->throttle_count; + cfs_rq->throttled_clock_task = rq_clock_task(rq); + } + } + /* an active group must be handled by the update_curr()->put() path */ if (!cfs_rq->runtime_enabled || cfs_rq->curr) return; --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ struct cfs_rq { u64 throttled_clock, throttled_clock_task; u64 throttled_clock_task_time; - int throttled, throttle_count; + int throttled, throttle_count, throttle_uptodate; struct list_head throttled_list; #endif /* CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH */ #endif /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */