Re: [PATCH-next] sched: Fix Null pointer derefrence

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat May 15 2021 - 17:03:05 EST


On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 05:46:45PM +0100, Khaled ROMDHANI wrote:
> The 'curr' variable could be NULL and derefrenced by
> pick_next_entity. Fix this by adding a check that prevent
> the invocation of pick_next_entity with a NULL passed argument.

And why exactly is that a problem?