[PATCH 1/1] sched/core: Don't steal a proxy-exec donor

From: Vasily Gorbik

Date: Mon May 04 2026 - 08:32:52 EST


try_steal_cookie() avoids stealing src->core_pick and src->curr before
moving a task with the same cookie via move_queued_task_locked().

With proxy-exec, src->donor is the current scheduling context and may
differ from src->curr. Stealing it migrates a task that the source rq
still treats as current. For CFS, src cfs_rq->curr is left pointing
at the stolen entity and the next pick on src hits the WARN_ON_ONCE
in put_prev_entity().

Commit 7de9d4f94638 ("sched: Start blocked_on chain processing in
find_proxy_task()") tweaked the fair class logic so that the donor task
isn't migrated away while running the proxy. Do it similarly for
try_steal_cookie() and skip src->donor as well.

Fixes: 7de9d4f94638 ("sched: Start blocked_on chain processing in find_proxy_task()")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b8871449d3c6..3cf5fb70814c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6358,7 +6358,7 @@ static bool try_steal_cookie(int this, int that)
return false;

do {
- if (p == src->core_pick || p == src->curr)
+ if (p == src->core_pick || p == src->curr || p == src->donor)
goto next;

if (!is_cpu_allowed(p, this))
--
2.53.0