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    sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity() · 25834c73
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    Because sched_setscheduler() checks p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY
    without locks, a caller might observe an old value and race with the
    set_cpus_allowed_ptr() call from __kthread_bind() and effectively undo
    it:
    
    	__kthread_bind()
    	  do_set_cpus_allowed()
    						<SYSCALL>
    						  sched_setaffinity()
    						    if (p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITIY)
    						    set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
    	  p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY
    
    Fix the bug by putting everything under the regular scheduler locks.
    
    This also closes a hole in the serialization of task_struct::{nr_,}cpus_allowed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com
    Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com
    Cc: mgorman@suse.de
    Cc: riel@redhat.com
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150515154833.545640346@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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