Subject: spusched: fix null pointer dereference in find_victim From: Christoph Hellwig find_victim can dereference a NULL pointer when iterating over the list of victim spus because list_mutex only guarantees spu->ct to be stable, but of course not to be non-NULL. Also fix find_victim to not call spu_unbind_context without list_mutex because that violates the above guarantee. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static struct spu *find_victim(struct sp list_for_each_entry(spu, &cbe_spu_info[node].spus, cbe_list) { struct spu_context *tmp = spu->ctx; - if (tmp->prio > ctx->prio && + if (tmp && tmp->prio > ctx->prio && (!victim || tmp->prio > victim->prio)) victim = spu->ctx; } @@ -611,9 +611,9 @@ static struct spu *find_victim(struct sp mutex_lock(&cbe_spu_info[node].list_mutex); cbe_spu_info[node].nr_active--; + spu_unbind_context(spu, victim); mutex_unlock(&cbe_spu_info[node].list_mutex); - spu_unbind_context(spu, victim); victim->stats.invol_ctx_switch++; spu->stats.invol_ctx_switch++; mutex_unlock(&victim->state_mutex);