[PATCH 01/10] sched: NULL pointer dereference while setting sched_rt_period_us
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 19 2008 - 08:36:56 EST
Hi all,
When CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED and CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED are enabled, with:
echo 10000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us
We get this:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000008c
[ 947.682233] IP: [<c0216b72>] __rt_schedulable+0x12/0x160
[ 947.683123] *pde = 00000000=20
[ 947.683782] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[ 947.684307] Modules linked in:
[ 947.684308]
[ 947.684308] Pid: 2359, comm: bash Not tainted (2.6.26-rc6 #8)
[ 947.684308] EIP: 0060:[<c0216b72>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0
[ 947.684308] EIP is at __rt_schedulable+0x12/0x160
[ 947.684308] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000001
[ 947.684308] ESI: c0521db4 EDI: 00000001 EBP: c6cc9f00 ESP: c6cc9ed0
[ 947.684308] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[ 947.684308] Process bash (pid: 2359, tiÆcc8000 taskÇa54f00=20 task.tiÆcc8000)
[ 947.684308] Stack: c0222790 00000000 080f8c08 c0521db4 c6cc9f00 00000001 00000000 00000000
[ 947.684308] c6cc9f9c 00000000 c0521db4 00000001 c6cc9f28 c0216d40 00000000 00000000
[ 947.684308] c6cc9f9c 000f4240 000e7ef0 ffffffff c0521db4 c79dfb60 c6cc9f58 c02af2cc
[ 947.684308] Call Trace:
[ 947.684308] [<c0222790>] ? do_proc_dointvec_conv+0x0/0x50
[ 947.684308] [<c0216d40>] ? sched_rt_handler+0x80/0x110
[ 947.684308] [<c02af2cc>] ? proc_sys_call_handler+0x9c/0xb0
[ 947.684308] [<c02af2fa>] ? proc_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
[ 947.684308] [<c0273c36>] ? vfs_write+0x96/0x160
[ 947.684308] [<c02af2e0>] ? proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20
[ 947.684308] [<c027423d>] ? sys_write+0x3d/0x70
[ 947.684308] [<c0202ef5>] ? sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91
[ 947.684308] =======================
[ 947.684308] Code: 24 04 e8 62 b1 0e 00 89 c7 89 f8 8b 5d f4 8b 75
f8 8b 7d fc 89 ec 5d c3 90 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 24 89 45 ec 89 55 e4
89 4d e8 <8b> b8 8c 00 00 00 85 ff 0f 84 c9 00 00 00 8b 57 24 39 55 e8
8b
[ 947.684308] EIP: [<c0216b72>] __rt_schedulable+0x12/0x160 SS:ESP 0068:c6cc9ed0
We think the following patch solves the issue.
Hope this is of some help.
Regards,
Dario Faggioli
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -8348,7 +8348,7 @@ static unsigned long to_ratio(u64 period
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
static int __rt_schedulable(struct task_group *tg, u64 period, u64 runtime)
{
- struct task_group *tgi, *parent = tg->parent;
+ struct task_group *tgi, *parent = tg ? tg->parent : NULL;
unsigned long total = 0;
if (!parent) {
--
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