Commit cb361d8c authored by Jann Horn's avatar Jann Horn Committed by Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Use RCU accessors consistently for ->numa_group

The old code used RCU annotations and accessors inconsistently for
->numa_group, which can lead to use-after-frees and NULL dereferences.

Let all accesses to ->numa_group use proper RCU helpers to prevent such
issues.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Fixes: 8c8a743c ("sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-3-jannh@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 16d51a59
......@@ -1092,7 +1092,15 @@ struct task_struct {
u64 last_sum_exec_runtime;
struct callback_head numa_work;
struct numa_group *numa_group;
/*
* This pointer is only modified for current in syscall and
* pagefault context (and for tasks being destroyed), so it can be read
* from any of the following contexts:
* - RCU read-side critical section
* - current->numa_group from everywhere
* - task's runqueue locked, task not running
*/
struct numa_group __rcu *numa_group;
/*
* numa_faults is an array split into four regions:
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