This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock

to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sched-use-rq-rd-in-sched_setaffinity-under-rcu-read-lock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From f1e3a0932f3a9554371792a7daaf1e0eb19f66d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:36:36 +0400
Subject: sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock

From: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>

commit f1e3a0932f3a9554371792a7daaf1e0eb19f66d5 upstream.

Probability of use-after-free isn't zero in this place.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140922183636.11015.83611.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/sched/core.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4008,13 +4008,14 @@ long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const
         * root_domain.
         */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-       if (task_has_dl_policy(p)) {
-               const struct cpumask *span = task_rq(p)->rd->span;
-
-               if (dl_bandwidth_enabled() && !cpumask_subset(span, new_mask)) {
+       if (task_has_dl_policy(p) && dl_bandwidth_enabled()) {
+               rcu_read_lock();
+               if (!cpumask_subset(task_rq(p)->rd->span, new_mask)) {
                        retval = -EBUSY;
+                       rcu_read_unlock();
                        goto out_unlock;
                }
+               rcu_read_unlock();
        }
 #endif
 again:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.17/sched-use-dl_bw_of-under-rcu-read-lock.patch
queue-3.17/sched-use-rq-rd-in-sched_setaffinity-under-rcu-read-lock.patch
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