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authorMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>2012-12-03 06:25:25 +0100
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-01-03 03:32:53 +0000
commit19947fdbb655f583763d04a2da57b2f43dab77bd (patch)
treeb2484b866b6a9ba2b7bd5299664ded5197f04846 /kernel
parent1a1f935d7a3298fecabe9d71f431a3eac4843cd9 (diff)
Revert "sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled"
commit fd8ef11730f1d03d5d6555aa53126e9e34f52f12 upstream. This reverts commit 800d4d30c8f20bd728e5741a3b77c4859a613f7c. Between commits 8323f26ce342 ("sched: Fix race in task_group()") and 800d4d30c8f2 ("sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled"), autogroup is a wreck. With both applied, all you have to do to crash a box is disable autogroup during boot up, then reboot.. boom, NULL pointer dereference due to commit 800d4d30c8f2 not allowing autogroup to move things, and commit 8323f26ce342 making that the only way to switch runqueues: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff81063ac0>] effective_load.isra.43+0x50/0x90 Pid: 7047, comm: systemd-user-se Not tainted 3.6.8-smp #7 MEDIONPC MS-7502/MS-7502 RIP: effective_load.isra.43+0x50/0x90 Process systemd-user-se (pid: 7047, threadinfo ffff880221dde000, task ffff88022618b3a0) Call Trace: select_task_rq_fair+0x255/0x780 try_to_wake_up+0x156/0x2c0 wake_up_state+0xb/0x10 signal_wake_up+0x28/0x40 complete_signal+0x1d6/0x250 __send_signal+0x170/0x310 send_signal+0x40/0x80 do_send_sig_info+0x47/0x90 group_send_sig_info+0x4a/0x70 kill_pid_info+0x3a/0x60 sys_kill+0x97/0x1a0 ? vfs_read+0x120/0x160 ? sys_read+0x45/0x90 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 49 0f af 41 50 31 d2 49 f7 f0 48 83 f8 01 48 0f 46 c6 48 2b 07 48 8b bf 40 01 00 00 48 85 ff 74 3a 45 31 c0 48 8b 8f 50 01 00 00 <48> 8b 11 4c 8b 89 80 00 00 00 49 89 d2 48 01 d0 45 8b 59 58 4c RIP [<ffffffff81063ac0>] effective_load.isra.43+0x50/0x90 RSP <ffff880221ddfbd8> CR2: 0000000000000000 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filenames] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_autogroup.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_autogroup.h5
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_autogroup.c b/kernel/sched_autogroup.c
index 429242f3c48..f280df1e550 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_autogroup.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_autogroup.c
@@ -160,15 +160,11 @@ autogroup_move_group(struct task_struct *p, struct autogroup *ag)
p->signal->autogroup = autogroup_kref_get(ag);
- if (!ACCESS_ONCE(sysctl_sched_autogroup_enabled))
- goto out;
-
t = p;
do {
sched_move_task(t);
} while_each_thread(p, t);
-out:
unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
autogroup_kref_put(prev);
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched_autogroup.h b/kernel/sched_autogroup.h
index c2f0e7248dc..3d7a50eaf68 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_autogroup.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_autogroup.h
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP
struct autogroup {
- /*
- * reference doesn't mean how many thread attach to this
- * autogroup now. It just stands for the number of task
- * could use this autogroup.
- */
struct kref kref;
struct task_group *tg;
struct rw_semaphore lock;