Re: Null pointer crash at find_idlest_group on db845c w/ linus/master

[Vincent Guittot]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 19:16, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 2:09 AM Vincent Guittot
> <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Le Wednesday 04 Dec 2019 Ã 09:42:17 (+0000), Qais Yousef a Ãcrit :
> > > On 12/04/19 09:06, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > > > Hi John,
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 20:15, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > With today's linus/master on db845c running android, I'm able to
> > > > > fairly easily reproduce the following crash. I've not had a chance to
> > > > > bisect it yet, but I'm suspecting its connected to Vincent's recent
> > > > > rework.
> > > >
> > > > Does the crash happen randomly or after a specific action ?
> > > > I have a db845 so I can try to reproduce it locally.
> > >
> > > Isn't there a chance we use local_sgs without initializing it in that function?
> >
> > Normally not because the cpu belongs to its sched_domain
> >
> > Now, we test that a group has at least one allowed CPU for the task so we
> > could skip the local group with the correct/wrong p->cpus_ptr
> >
> > The path is used for fork/exec ibut also for wakeup path for b.L when the task doesn't fit in the CPUs
> >
> > So we can probably imagine a scenario where we change task affinity while
> > sleeping. If the wakeup happens on a CPU that belongs to the group that is not
> > allowed, we can imagine that we skip the local_group
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Could you try the fix below ?
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 08a233e..bcd216d 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -8417,6 +8417,10 @@ find_idlest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
> >         if (!idlest)
> >                 return NULL;
> >
> > +       /* The local group has been skipped because of cpu affinity */
> > +       if (!local)
> > +               return idlest;
> > +
> >         /*
> >          * If the local group is idler than the selected idlest group
> >          * don't try and push the task.
>
> This patch does seem to solve the issue for me! Thanks so much!

Thanks for testing

>
> Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> -john