From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 18f855e574d9799a0e7489f8ae6fd8447d0dd74a ] Stefano reported a crash with using SQPOLL with io_uring: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000003b0 CPU: 2 PID: 1307 Comm: io_uring-sq Not tainted 5.7.0-rc7 #11 RIP: 0010:task_numa_work+0x4f/0x2c0 Call Trace: task_work_run+0x68/0xa0 io_sq_thread+0x252/0x3d0 kthread+0xf9/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 which is task_numa_work() oopsing on current->mm being NULL. The task work is queued by task_tick_numa(), which checks if current->mm is NULL at the time of the call. But this state isn't necessarily persistent, if the kthread is using use_mm() to temporarily adopt the mm of a task. Change the task_tick_numa() check to exclude kernel threads in general, as it doesn't make sense to attempt ot balance for kthreads anyway. Reported-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/865de121-8190-5d30-ece5-3b097dc74431@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 5e65c7eea872..8233032a2f01 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -2542,7 +2542,7 @@ void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr) /* * We don't care about NUMA placement if we don't have memory. */ - if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & PF_EXITING) || work->next != work) + if ((curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work) return; /* -- 2.25.1
