Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

664f0f6b · Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> · 2026-04-28 16:26:11 -07:00

Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "The merge window pulled in the cgroup sub-scheduler infrastructure,
  and new AI reviews are accelerating bug reporting and fixing - hence
  the larger than usual fixes batch:

   - Use-after-frees during scheduler load/unload:
       - The disable path could free the BPF scheduler while deferred
         irq_work / kthread work was still in flight
       - cgroup setter callbacks read the active scheduler outside the
         rwsem that synchronizes against teardown
     Fix both, and reuse the disable drain in the enable error paths so
     the BPF JIT page can't be freed under live callbacks.

   - Several BPF op invocations didn't tell the framework which runqueue
     was already locked, so helper kfuncs that re-acquire the runqueue
     by CPU could deadlock on the held lock

     Fix the affected callsites, including recursive parent-into-child
     dispatch.

   - The hardlockup notifier ran from NMI but eventually took a
     non-NMI-safe lock. Bounce it through irq_work.

   - A handful of bugs in the new sub-scheduler hierarchy:
       - helper kfuncs hard-coded the root instead of resolving the
         caller's scheduler
       - the enable error path tried to disable per-task state that had
         never been initialized, and leaked cpus_read_lock on the way
         out
       - a sysfs object was leaked on every load/unload
       - the dispatch fast-path used the root scheduler instead of the
         task's
       - a couple of CONFIG #ifdef guards were misclassified

   - Verifier-time hardening: BPF programs of unrelated struct_ops types
     (e.g. tcp_congestion_ops) could call sched_ext kfuncs - a semantic
     bug and, once sub-sched was enabled, a KASAN out-of-bounds read.
     Now rejected at load. Plus a few NULL and cross-task argument
     checks on sched_ext kfuncs, and a selftest covering the new deny.

   - rhashtable (Herbert): restore the insecure_elasticity toggle and
     bounce the deferred-resize kick through irq_work to break a
     lock-order cycle observable from raw-spinlock callers. sched_ext's
     scheduler-instance hash is the first user of both.

   - The bypass-mode load balancer used file-scope cpumasks; with
     multiple scheduler instances now possible, those raced. Move to
     per-instance cpumasks, plus a follow-up to skip tasks whose
     recorded CPU is stale relative to the new owning runqueue.

   - Smaller fixes:
       - a dispatch queue's first-task tracking misbehaved when a parked
         iterator cursor sat in the list
       - the runqueue's next-class wasn't promoted on local-queue
         enqueue, leaving an SCX task behind RT in edge cases
       - the reference qmap scheduler stopped erroring on legitimate
         cross-scheduler task-storage misses"

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (26 commits)
  sched_ext: Fix scx_flush_disable_work() UAF race
  sched_ext: Call wakeup_preempt() in local_dsq_post_enq()
  sched_ext: Release cpus_read_lock on scx_link_sched() failure in root enable
  sched_ext: Reject NULL-sch callers in scx_bpf_task_set_slice/dsq_vtime
  sched_ext: Refuse cross-task select_cpu_from_kfunc calls
  sched_ext: Align cgroup #ifdef guards with SUB_SCHED vs GROUP_SCHED
  sched_ext: Make bypass LB cpumasks per-scheduler
  sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for core_sched_before
  sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for dump_cpu/dump_task
  sched_ext: Save and restore scx_locked_rq across SCX_CALL_OP
  sched_ext: Use dsq->first_task instead of list_empty() in dispatch_enqueue() FIFO-tail
  sched_ext: Resolve caller's scheduler in scx_bpf_destroy_dsq() / scx_bpf_dsq_nr_queued()
  sched_ext: Read scx_root under scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem in cgroup setters
  sched_ext: Don't disable tasks in scx_sub_enable_workfn() abort path
  sched_ext: Skip tasks with stale task_rq in bypass_lb_cpu()
  sched_ext: Guard scx_dsq_move() against NULL kit->dsq after failed iter_new
  sched_ext: Unregister sub_kset on scheduler disable
  sched_ext: Defer scx_hardlockup() out of NMI
  sched_ext: sync disable_irq_work in bpf_scx_unreg()
  sched_ext: Fix local_dsq_post_enq() to use task's scheduler in sub-sched
  ...

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