[PATCH 2/2] sched/debug: Fix avg_vruntime() usage

From: Peter Zijlstra

Date: Wed Apr 01 2026 - 09:33:07 EST


John reported that stress-ng-yield could make his machine unhappy and
managed to bisect it to commit b3d99f43c72b ("sched/fair: Fix
zero_vruntime tracking").

The commit in question changes avg_vruntime() from a function that is
a pure reader, to a function that updates variables. This turns an
unlocked sched/debug usage of this function from a minor mistake into
a data corruptor.

Fixes: af4cf40470c2 ("sched/fair: Add cfs_rq::avg_vruntime")
Fixes: b3d99f43c72b ("sched/fair: Fix zero_vruntime tracking")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/debug.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ static void print_rq(struct seq_file *m,
void print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{
s64 left_vruntime = -1, zero_vruntime, right_vruntime = -1, left_deadline = -1, spread;
+ u64 avruntime;
struct sched_entity *last, *first, *root;
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
unsigned long flags;
@@ -925,6 +926,7 @@ void print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, in
if (last)
right_vruntime = last->vruntime;
zero_vruntime = cfs_rq->zero_vruntime;
+ avruntime = avg_vruntime(cfs_rq);
raw_spin_rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, flags);

SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %Ld.%06ld\n", "left_deadline",
@@ -934,7 +936,7 @@ void print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, in
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %Ld.%06ld\n", "zero_vruntime",
SPLIT_NS(zero_vruntime));
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %Ld.%06ld\n", "avg_vruntime",
- SPLIT_NS(avg_vruntime(cfs_rq)));
+ SPLIT_NS(avruntime));
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %Ld.%06ld\n", "right_vruntime",
SPLIT_NS(right_vruntime));
spread = right_vruntime - left_vruntime;