[PATCH] sched_ext: idle: Respect task affinity in restricted CPU selection
From: Hui Su
Date: Sat Oct 10 2026 - 22:55:22 EST
The restricted select_cpu kfunc path handles single-CPU and
migration-disabled tasks without going through scx_select_cpu_dfl().
When a caller supplies @allowed, the path currently checks prev_cpu only
against that mask. It can therefore return an idle prev_cpu which isn't
in p->cpus_ptr.
Require prev_cpu to belong to both p->cpus_ptr and the caller-provided
mask before consuming its idle state.
Fixes: 683d2d0faba1 ("sched_ext: idle: Introduce scx_bpf_select_cpu_and()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@xxxxxxx>
---
Testing:
- x86_64 KVM/QEMU.
- A private regression harness pinned the task to CPU 0 and called
scx_bpf_select_cpu_and() with an idle CPU 1 outside the task affinity
but inside the caller-provided mask.
- On the baseline kernel, the helper returned CPU 1.
- With this fix, the helper rejected the out-of-affinity CPU.
- The existing allowed_cpus selftest passed with the fix.
kernel/sched/ext/idle.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/idle.c b/kernel/sched/ext/idle.c
index aa9fb6de0ad6..20efa463cafa 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/idle.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/idle.c
@@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ static s32 select_cpu_from_kfunc(struct scx_sched *sch, struct task_struct *p,
* used CPU is idle and within the allowed cpumask.
*/
if (p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1 || is_bpf_migration_disabled(p)) {
- if (cpumask_test_cpu(prev_cpu, allowed ?: p->cpus_ptr) &&
+ if (cpumask_test_cpu(prev_cpu, p->cpus_ptr) &&
+ (!allowed || cpumask_test_cpu(prev_cpu, allowed)) &&
scx_idle_test_and_clear_cpu(prev_cpu))
cpu = prev_cpu;
else
base-commit: 7b63ef2d55f24519e7e9e5f4d15dbea03f126e40