[tip:sched/core] sched: Add debug check to task_of()

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  8f48894fcc89ddec62e1762f73a0825793e59e91
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/8f48894fcc89ddec62e1762f73a0825793e59e91
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:25:30 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:26:14 +0200

sched: Add debug check to task_of()

A frequent mistake appears to be to call task_of() on a
scheduler entity that is not actually a task, which can result
in a wild pointer.

Add a check to catch these mistakes.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
 kernel/sched_fair.c |   20 ++++++++++++++------
 kernel/sched_rt.c   |   16 ++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 4934729..342000b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -79,11 +79,6 @@ static const struct sched_class fair_sched_class;
  * CFS operations on generic schedulable entities:
  */
 
-static inline struct task_struct *task_of(struct sched_entity *se)
-{
-	return container_of(se, struct task_struct, se);
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 
 /* cpu runqueue to which this cfs_rq is attached */
@@ -95,6 +90,14 @@ static inline struct rq *rq_of(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 /* An entity is a task if it doesn't "own" a runqueue */
 #define entity_is_task(se)	(!se->my_q)
 
+static inline struct task_struct *task_of(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!entity_is_task(se));
+#endif
+	return container_of(se, struct task_struct, se);
+}
+
 /* Walk up scheduling entities hierarchy */
 #define for_each_sched_entity(se) \
 		for (; se; se = se->parent)
@@ -186,7 +189,12 @@ find_matching_se(struct sched_entity **se, struct sched_entity **pse)
 	}
 }
 
-#else	/* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
+#else	/* !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
+
+static inline struct task_struct *task_of(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+	return container_of(se, struct task_struct, se);
+}
 
 static inline struct rq *rq_of(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c
index 13f728e..f365e66 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c
@@ -3,15 +3,18 @@
  * policies)
  */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
+
+#define rt_entity_is_task(rt_se) (!(rt_se)->my_q)
+
 static inline struct task_struct *rt_task_of(struct sched_rt_entity *rt_se)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!rt_entity_is_task(rt_se));
+#endif
 	return container_of(rt_se, struct task_struct, rt);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
-
-#define rt_entity_is_task(rt_se) (!(rt_se)->my_q)
-
 static inline struct rq *rq_of_rt_rq(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
 {
 	return rt_rq->rq;
@@ -26,6 +29,11 @@ static inline struct rt_rq *rt_rq_of_se(struct sched_rt_entity *rt_se)
 
 #define rt_entity_is_task(rt_se) (1)
 
+static inline struct task_struct *rt_task_of(struct sched_rt_entity *rt_se)
+{
+	return container_of(rt_se, struct task_struct, rt);
+}
+
 static inline struct rq *rq_of_rt_rq(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
 {
 	return container_of(rt_rq, struct rq, rt);
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