sched: fix: initialization of sched_domain_topology for NUMA

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Tue May 13 2014 - 05:12:16 EST


Jet Chen has reported a kernel panics when booting qemu-system-x86_64 with
kvm64 cpu. A panic occured while building the sched_domain.

In sched_init_numa, we create a new topology table in which both default
levels and numa levels are copied. The last row of the table must have a null
pointer in the mask field.

The current implementation doesn't add this last row in the computation of the
table size. So we add 1 row in the allocation size that will be used as the
last row of the table. The kzalloc will ensure that the mask field is NULL.

Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/12/130

---

Hi Peter,

Does this commit message contain enough information ?

Regards,
Vincent

kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 4ea7b3f..205fa17 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6234,7 +6234,7 @@ static void sched_init_numa(void)
/* Compute default topology size */
for (i = 0; sched_domain_topology[i].mask; i++);

- tl = kzalloc((i + level) *
+ tl = kzalloc((i + level + 1) *
sizeof(struct sched_domain_topology_level), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tl)
return;
--
1.9.1

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