On 2016/07/11 at 15:25, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> 2016-06-16 20:57 GMT+08:00 Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru>:
>> Hierarchy could be already throttled at this point. Throttled next
>> buddy could trigger null pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair().
> There is cfs_rq->next check in pick_next_entity(), so how can null
> pointer dereference happen?
I guess it's the following code leading to a NULL se returned:
pick_next_entity():
if (cfs_rq->next && wakeup_preempt_entity(cfs_rq->next, left) < 1)
se = cfs_rq->next;
Regards,
Xunlei
> Regards,
> Wanpeng Li
