[PATCH v5 sched_ext/for-7.3 01/33] sched_ext: Assert per-task ops run on the task's owner

From: Tejun Heo

Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 18:51:43 EST


A per-task op must be dispatched on the scheduler that owns the task.
SCX_CALL_OP_TASK() and its _RET twin take @sch explicitly, and a caller that
passes the wrong scheduler would silently run the op on it. Add a
WARN_ON_ONCE() that @sch matches the task's owner so such a mismatch is
caught rather than hidden.

Two sites legitimately target a scheduler other than the task's owner:
cgroup_move() runs on the root sched, and scx_sub_init_cancel_task() fires
exit_task() on a task not yet associated with @sch. Both switch to the inner
__SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(), which dispatches on the explicit @sch without the
assert.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
kernel/sched/ext/internal.h | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
index 5241b55a58ec..acc3b43fe88a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
@@ -1436,8 +1436,12 @@ static void scx_dispatch_enqueue(struct scx_sched *sch, struct rq *rq,
local_dsq_post_enq(sch, dsq, p, enq_flags);
} else {
/*
- * Task on global/bypass DSQ: leave custody, task on
- * non-terminal DSQ: enter custody.
+ * Global and bypass DSQs are terminal - the task leaves the
+ * scheduler's custody, so ops.dequeue() fires here. It can run
+ * without @p's rq lock (finish_dispatch() passes the dispatch
+ * rq); that's safe because dequeue_task_scx() waits on
+ * SCX_OPSS_DISPATCHING (see the ops_state note above) and so
+ * can't race it. A non-terminal DSQ keeps the task in custody.
*/
if (dsq->id == SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL || dsq->id == SCX_DSQ_BYPASS)
call_task_dequeue(sch, rq, p, 0);
@@ -3446,8 +3450,9 @@ void scx_sub_init_cancel_task(struct scx_sched *sch, struct task_struct *p)
lockdep_assert_held(&p->pi_lock);
lockdep_assert_rq_held(task_rq(p));

+ /* @p was never associated with @sch, dispatch on the explicit @sch */
if (SCX_HAS_OP(sch, exit_task))
- SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(sch, exit_task, task_rq(p), p, &args);
+ __SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(sch, ops, exit_task, task_rq(p), p, &args);
}

void scx_disable_and_exit_task(struct scx_sched *sch, struct task_struct *p)
@@ -4184,12 +4189,13 @@ void scx_cgroup_move_task(struct task_struct *p)
* cgroup changes. Migration keys off css rather than cgroup identity,
* so it can hand an unchanged-cgroup task here with cgrp_moving_from
* NULL. Nothing to report to the BPF scheduler then, so skip it and
- * keep prep_move and move paired.
+ * keep prep_move and move paired. Cgroup ops run on the root sched,
+ * dispatch on the explicit @sch.
*/
if (SCX_HAS_OP(sch, cgroup_move) && p->scx.cgrp_moving_from)
- SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(sch, cgroup_move, task_rq(p),
- p, p->scx.cgrp_moving_from,
- tg_cgrp(task_group(p)));
+ __SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(sch, ops, cgroup_move, task_rq(p),
+ p, p->scx.cgrp_moving_from,
+ tg_cgrp(task_group(p)));
p->scx.cgrp_moving_from = NULL;
}

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/internal.h b/kernel/sched/ext/internal.h
index 5ca44ad88786..8aabd92fae3b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/internal.h
@@ -1810,8 +1810,15 @@ do { \
current->scx.kf_tasks[0] = NULL; \
} while (0)

+/*
+ * A per-task op runs on @task's owner - WARN if @sch isn't it. Sites that must
+ * target a different scheduler call __SCX_CALL_OP_TASK() directly.
+ */
#define SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(sch, op, locked_rq, task, args...) \
- __SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(sch, ops, op, locked_rq, task, ##args)
+do { \
+ WARN_ON_ONCE((sch) != scx_task_sched_rcu(task)); \
+ __SCX_CALL_OP_TASK((sch), ops, op, locked_rq, task, ##args); \
+} while (0)

/*
* Dispatch a task op through the cid-form ops_cid table. Only set_cmask() needs
@@ -1824,6 +1831,7 @@ do { \
#define SCX_CALL_OP_TASK_RET(sch, op, locked_rq, task, args...) \
({ \
__typeof__((sch)->ops.op(task, ##args)) __ret; \
+ WARN_ON_ONCE((sch) != scx_task_sched_rcu(task)); \
WARN_ON_ONCE(current->scx.kf_tasks[0]); \
current->scx.kf_tasks[0] = task; \
__ret = SCX_CALL_OP_RET((sch), op, locked_rq, task, ##args); \
--
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