[PATCH] Fix the race between walk_tg_tree and sched_create_group

[Zhang, Yanmin]

With 2.6.27-rc3, I hit a kernel panic when running volanoMark on my
new x86_64 machine. I also hit it with other 2.6.27-rc kernels.
See below log.

Basically, function walk_tg_tree and sched_create_group have a race between
accessing and initiating tg->children. Below patch fixes it by moving 
tg->children initiation to the front of linking tg->siblings to parent->children.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

----------------panic log------------

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: [<ffffffff802292ab>] walk_tg_tree+0x45/0x7f
PGD 1be1c4067 PUD 1bdd8d067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 11
Modules linked in: igb
Pid: 22979, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802292ab>]  [<ffffffff802292ab>] walk_tg_tree+0x45/0x7f
RSP: 0018:ffff8801bfbbbd18  EFLAGS: 00010083
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800be0dce40 RCX: ffffffffffffffc0
RDX: ffff880102c43740 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8800be0dce40
RBP: ffff8801bfbbbd48 R08: ffff8800ba437bc8 R09: 0000000000001f40
R10: ffff8801be812100 R11: ffffffff805fdf44 R12: ffff880102c43740
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8022cf0f R15: ffffffff8022749f
FS:  00000000568ac950(0063) GS:ffff8801bfa26d00(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001bd848000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process java (pid: 22979, threadinfo ffff8801b145a000, task ffff8801bf18e450)
Stack:  0000000000000001 ffff8800ba5c8d60 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
 ffff8800bad1ccb8 0000000000000000 ffff8801bfbbbd98 ffffffff8022ed37
 0000000000000001 0000000000000286 ffff8801bd5ee180 ffff8800ba437bc8
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8022ed37>] try_to_wake_up+0x71/0x24c
 [<ffffffff80247177>] autoremove_wake_function+0x9/0x2e
 [<ffffffff80228039>] ? __wake_up_common+0x46/0x76
 [<ffffffff802296d5>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f
 [<ffffffff806169cc>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x380/0x62e


---

--- linux-2.6.27-rc3/kernel/sched.c	2008-08-14 06:23:49.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.27-rc3_race/kernel/sched.c	2008-08-14 07:19:07.000000000 +0800
@@ -8462,8 +8462,8 @@ struct task_group *sched_create_group(st
 	WARN_ON(!parent); /* root should already exist */
 
 	tg->parent = parent;
-	list_add_rcu(&tg->siblings, &parent->children);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tg->children);
+	list_add_rcu(&tg->siblings, &parent->children);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task_group_lock, flags);
 
 	return tg;


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