Re: [PATCH] sched/core: Fix a missed update of user_cpus_ptr

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Feb 13 2023 - 09:57:38 EST


On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 01:18:49PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> Since commit 8f9ea86fdf99 ("sched: Always preserve the user requested
> cpumask"), a successful call to sched_setaffinity() should always save
> the user requested cpu affinity mask in a task's user_cpus_ptr. However,
> when the given cpu mask is the same as the current one, user_cpus_ptr
> is not updated. Fix this by saving the user mask in this case too.
>
> Fixes: 8f9ea86fdf99 ("sched: Always preserve the user requested cpumask")
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 30d9752e2ca5..91255f791df3 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2951,8 +2951,11 @@ static int __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked(struct task_struct *p,
> }
>
> if (!(ctx->flags & SCA_MIGRATE_ENABLE)) {
> - if (cpumask_equal(&p->cpus_mask, ctx->new_mask))
> + if (cpumask_equal(&p->cpus_mask, ctx->new_mask)) {
> + if (ctx->flags & SCA_USER)
> + swap(p->user_cpus_ptr, ctx->user_mask);
> goto out;
> + }
>
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(p == current &&
> is_migration_disabled(p) &&

Indeed. Thanks!