sched: Add debug check to task_of()
A frequent mistake appears to be to call task_of() on a
scheduler entity that is not actually a task, which can result
in a wild pointer.
Add a check to catch these mistakes.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 4934729..342000b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -79,11 +79,6 @@
* CFS operations on generic schedulable entities:
*/
-static inline struct task_struct *task_of(struct sched_entity *se)
-{
- return container_of(se, struct task_struct, se);
-}
-
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
/* cpu runqueue to which this cfs_rq is attached */
@@ -95,6 +90,14 @@
/* An entity is a task if it doesn't "own" a runqueue */
#define entity_is_task(se) (!se->my_q)
+static inline struct task_struct *task_of(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!entity_is_task(se));
+#endif
+ return container_of(se, struct task_struct, se);
+}
+
/* Walk up scheduling entities hierarchy */
#define for_each_sched_entity(se) \
for (; se; se = se->parent)
@@ -186,7 +189,12 @@
}
}
-#else /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
+#else /* !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
+
+static inline struct task_struct *task_of(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+ return container_of(se, struct task_struct, se);
+}
static inline struct rq *rq_of(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{