A single scheduler fix preventing a crash in NUMA balancing. The
current->mm check is not reliable as the mm might be temporary
due to use_mm() in a kthread. Check for PF_KTHREAD explictely.
sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads
Stefano reported a crash with using SQPOLL with io_uring:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000003b0
CPU: 2 PID: 1307 Comm: io_uring-sq Not tainted 5.7.0-rc7 #11
RIP: 0010:task_numa_work+0x4f/0x2c0
Call Trace:
task_work_run+0x68/0xa0
io_sq_thread+0x252/0x3d0
kthread+0xf9/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
which is task_numa_work() oopsing on current->mm being NULL.
The task work is queued by task_tick_numa(), which checks if current->mm is
NULL at the time of the call. But this state isn't necessarily persistent,
if the kthread is using use_mm() to temporarily adopt the mm of a task.
Change the task_tick_numa() check to exclude kernel threads in general,
as it doesn't make sense to attempt ot balance for kthreads anyway.
Reported-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/865de121-8190-5d30-ece5-3b097dc74431@kernel.dk
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