Re: [PATCH] sched: fix race in schedule

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 13:54 -0700, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 13:01 -0700, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
> > 
> >> thanks, your patch looks nice to me.
> >> I had focused setprio, on_rq=0 and running=1 situation, it makes me to
> >> fix these functions.
> >> But one point, I've just noticed. I'm not sure on same situation against
> >> sched_rt. I think the pre_schedule() of rt has chance to drop rq lock.
> >> Is it OK?
> > 
> > Ah, you are quite right, that'll teach me to rush out a patch just
> > because dinner is ready :-). 
> > 
> > How about we submit the following patch for mainline and CC -stable to
> > fix .23 and .24:
> 
> thanks for working, I'm OK, and will test it soon.
> IIRC, it came from the group scheduling, .23 probably doesn't have this issue.

Might not have this exact race, but I've checked both .23 and .24, both
can unlock the rq before we do ->put_prev_task(), leaving a window for
potential nasties. I'm rather safe than sorry :-)