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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mohammed Naser <mnaser@vexxhost.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Fix null pointer dereference of empty queues
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 22:38:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432586334.11346.2.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432576851-24831-1-git-send-email-mnaser@vexxhost.com>

On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 14:00 -0400, Mohammed Naser wrote:
> Calling put_prev_task() can result in nr_running being updated
> to zero, which would then crash the system when the kernel
> attempts to pick_next_entity() with an empty queue.

Getting to pick_next_entity() with an empty queue is a bug.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-25 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-25 18:00 Mohammed Naser
2015-05-25 20:38 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAEs876hF0rcSdqoKf-JASnKP0SFs70EREzpxFs9M9qC51Ea6zA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-25 20:49     ` Mohammed Naser
2015-05-25 21:51       ` Kirill Tkhai
2015-05-26 17:38         ` bsegall
2015-05-26 17:56           ` Mohammed Naser
2015-05-26 18:05             ` Mohammed Naser
2015-05-27 12:33           ` Kirill Tkhai

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