1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 92279eaf0ef2..46167899d852 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -518,12 +518,20 @@ again:
         }
 
         /*
-         * We need to take care of a possible races here. In fact, the
-         * task might have changed its scheduling policy to something
-         * different from SCHED_DEADLINE or changed its reservation
-         * parameters (through sched_setattr()).
+         * We need to take care of several possible races here:
+         *
+         *   - the task might have changed its scheduling policy
+         *     to something different than SCHED_DEADLINE
+         *   - the task might have changed its reservation parameters
+         *     (through sched_setattr())
+         *   - the task might have been boosted by someone else and
+         *     might be in the boosting/deboosting path
+         *
+         * In all this cases we bail out, as the task is already
+         * in the runqueue or is going to be enqueued back anyway.
          */
-        if (!dl_task(p) || dl_se->dl_new)
+        if (!dl_task(p) || dl_se->dl_new ||
+            dl_se->dl_boosted || !dl_se->dl_throttled)
                 goto unlock;
 
         sched_clock_tick();