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>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions

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 @@ static const struct sched_class fair_sched_class;
  * 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 @@ static inline struct rq *rq_of(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 /* 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 @@ find_matching_se(struct sched_entity **se, struct sched_entity **pse)
 	}
 }
 
-#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)
 {