sched/fair: Do not announce throttled next buddy in dequeue_task_fair()

Hierarchy could be already throttled at this point. Throttled next buddy could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair(). Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146608183552.21905.15924473394414832071.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
fracktal · Jun 24, 2016 · 754bd59 · 754bd59
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diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4537,15 +4537,14 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 
 		/* Don't dequeue parent if it has other entities besides us */
 		if (cfs_rq->load.weight) {
+			/* Avoid re-evaluating load for this entity: */
+			se = parent_entity(se);
 			/*
 			 * Bias pick_next to pick a task from this cfs_rq, as
 			 * p is sleeping when it is within its sched_slice.
 			 */
-			if (task_sleep && parent_entity(se))
-				set_next_buddy(parent_entity(se));
-
-			/* avoid re-evaluating load for this entity */
-			se = parent_entity(se);
+			if (task_sleep && se && !throttled_hierarchy(cfs_rq))
+				set_next_buddy(se);
 			break;
 		}
 		flags |= DEQUEUE_SLEEP;