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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2007-09-19 14:38:12 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-09-19 15:26:29 +1000
commitc0e7b4aa1c09ea992808ea8c079141bc8dd0f5bc (patch)
tree04526571476d3f4e5f28f2043c025b72275c6b4a /arch/powerpc/platforms/cell
parentc2f828977ba5d17c13debba374ea252d18e5ccfb (diff)
[POWERPC] spusched: Fix null pointer dereference in find_victim
find_victim can dereference a NULL pointer when iterating over the list of victim spus because list_mutex only guarantees spu->ct to be stable, but of course not to be non-NULL. Also fix find_victim to not call spu_unbind_context without list_mutex because that violates the above guarantee. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/cell')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c
index c784edd40ea..5bebe7fbe05 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static struct spu *find_victim(struct spu_context *ctx)
list_for_each_entry(spu, &cbe_spu_info[node].spus, cbe_list) {
struct spu_context *tmp = spu->ctx;
- if (tmp->prio > ctx->prio &&
+ if (tmp && tmp->prio > ctx->prio &&
(!victim || tmp->prio > victim->prio))
victim = spu->ctx;
}
@@ -611,9 +611,9 @@ static struct spu *find_victim(struct spu_context *ctx)
mutex_lock(&cbe_spu_info[node].list_mutex);
cbe_spu_info[node].nr_active--;
+ spu_unbind_context(spu, victim);
mutex_unlock(&cbe_spu_info[node].list_mutex);
- spu_unbind_context(spu, victim);
victim->stats.invol_ctx_switch++;
spu->stats.invol_ctx_switch++;
mutex_unlock(&victim->state_mutex);