sched: Do not attempt to destroy uninitialized rt_bandwidth
If a task group is to be created and alloc_fair_sched_group() fails, then the rt_bandwidth of the corresponding task group is not yet initialized. The caller, sched_create_group(), starts a clean up procedure which calls free_rt_sched_group() which unconditionally destroys the not yet initialized rt_bandwidth. This crashes or hangs the system in lock_hrtimer_base(): UP systems dereference a NULL pointer, while SMP systems loop endlessly on a condition that cannot become true. This patch simply avoids the destruction of rt_bandwidth when the initialization code path was not reached. (This was discovered by accident with a custom kernel modification.) Signed-off-by: Bianca Lutz <sowilo@cs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Schoenherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310580816-10861-7-git-send-email-schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.deSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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