From 18f855e574d9799a0e7489f8ae6fd8447d0dd74a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 09:38:31 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads Stefano reported a crash with using SQPOLL with io_uring: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000003b0 CPU: 2 PID: 1307 Comm: io_uring-sq Not tainted 5.7.0-rc7 #11 RIP: 0010:task_numa_work+0x4f/0x2c0 Call Trace: task_work_run+0x68/0xa0 io_sq_thread+0x252/0x3d0 kthread+0xf9/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 which is task_numa_work() oopsing on current->mm being NULL. The task work is queued by task_tick_numa(), which checks if current->mm is NULL at the time of the call. But this state isn't necessarily persistent, if the kthread is using use_mm() to temporarily adopt the mm of a task. Change the task_tick_numa() check to exclude kernel threads in general, as it doesn't make sense to attempt ot balance for kthreads anyway. Reported-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/865de121-8190-5d30-ece5-3b097dc74431@kernel.dk --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 538ba5d94e99..da3e5b54715b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ static void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr) /* * We don't care about NUMA placement if we don't have memory. */ - if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & PF_EXITING) || work->next != work) + if ((curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work) return; /*