On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:35:43PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
And as Tetsuo Handa pointed out privately, my patch was way broken.
Here is an updated version.
Thanx, Paul
commit b15e561ed91b7a366c3cc635026f3b9ce6483070
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed Apr 21 14:04:56 2010 -0700
sched: protect __sched_setscheduler() access to cgroups
A given task's cgroups structures must remain while that task is running
due to reference counting, so this is presumably a false positive.
Updated to reflect feedback from Tetsuo Handa.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 14c44ec..f425a2b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4575,9 +4575,13 @@ recheck:
* Do not allow realtime tasks into groups that have no runtime
* assigned.
*/
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (rt_bandwidth_enabled() && rt_policy(policy) &&
- task_group(p)->rt_bandwidth.rt_runtime == 0)
+ task_group(p)->rt_bandwidth.rt_runtime == 0) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return -EPERM;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
#endif
retval = security_task_setscheduler(p, policy, param);
--
