[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 17 11:17:50 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at parallels.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:36:36 +0400
Subject: sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock
commit f1e3a0932f3a9554371792a7daaf1e0eb19f66d5 upstream.
Probability of use-after-free isn't zero in this place.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140922183636.11015.83611.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used peterz's backport to 3.17 ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 169720f46c30..07f41f4fe4db 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3983,13 +3983,14 @@ long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *in_mask)
* root_domain.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (task_has_dl_policy(p)) {
- const struct cpumask *span = task_rq(p)->rd->span;
-
- if (dl_bandwidth_enabled() && !cpumask_subset(span, new_mask)) {
+ if (task_has_dl_policy(p) && dl_bandwidth_enabled()) {
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!cpumask_subset(task_rq(p)->rd->span, new_mask)) {
retval = -EBUSY;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
goto out_unlock;
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
#endif
again:
--
2.1.0
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