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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sched/autogroup: Fix race with task_groups list
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:03:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130527090338.GG2781@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369411669-46971-2-git-send-email-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:07:49PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> In autogroup_create(), a tg is allocated and added to the task_groups
> list. If CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED is set, this tg is then modified while on
> the list, without locking. This can race with someone walking the list,
> like __enable_runtime() during CPU unplug, and result in a use-after-free
> bug.
> 
> To fix this, move sched_online_group(), which adds the tg to the list,
> to the end of the autogroup_create() function after the modification.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>

Ah indeed, nice catch. Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-27  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-24 16:07 [PATCH 0/1] " Gerald Schaefer
2013-05-24 16:07 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Gerald Schaefer
2013-05-27  9:03   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-05-28 13:05   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Gerald Schaefer

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