[PATCH] sched/rt: Do not do push/pull when there is only one CPU

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Dec 01 2017 - 13:32:29 EST



Daniel Wagner reported a crash on the beaglebone black. This is a
single CPU architecture, and does not have a functional:
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi() and can crash if that is called.

As it only has one CPU, it shouldn't be called, but if the kernel is
compiled for SMP, the push/pull RT scheduling logic now calls it for
irq_work if the one CPU is overloaded, it can use that function to call
itself and crash the kernel.

There's no reason for the push/pull logic to even be called if there's
only one CPU online. Have it bail if it sees that's the case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c913cc2-b2e3-8c2e-e503-aff1428f8ff5@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 4bdced5c9 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@xxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 4056c19ca3f0..50d2f8179f70 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -1784,6 +1784,10 @@ static int push_rt_task(struct rq *rq)
if (!rq->rt.overloaded)
return 0;

+ /* If we are the only CPU, don't bother */
+ if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
+ return 0;
+
next_task = pick_next_pushable_task(rq);
if (!next_task)
return 0;
@@ -2038,6 +2042,10 @@ static void pull_rt_task(struct rq *this_rq)
if (likely(!rt_overloaded(this_rq)))
return;

+ /* If we are the only CPU, don't bother */
+ if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
+ return;
+
/*
* Match the barrier from rt_set_overloaded; this guarantees that if we
* see overloaded we must also see the rto_mask bit.