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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 05:59:13 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>, oe-lkp@lists.linux.dev,
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	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Mohini Narkhede <mohini.narkhede@intel.com>,
	aubrey.li@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [tip:tmp.tmp] [sched/fair]  eb2db043ab:
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* Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 10:07:28AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 04:35:37PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > kernel test robot noticed "BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer_dereference,address" on:
> > > > 
> > > > commit: eb2db043ab3a28ae76800f2a57e144420800d56d ("sched/fair: Skip sched_balance_running cmpxchg when balance is not due")
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tmp.tmp
> > > 
> > > Not sure what this branch is, but tip/sched/core has the fixed commit.
> > 
> > Not sure how the test-bot picked up this temporary 
> > branch and reported it despite it being gone from the 
> > repo, but the branch hasn't been in -tip for days.
> > 
> > This report can be safely ignored.
> 
> sorry for the noise. yeah, our so-called 'gitmirror' mechnism fetched the
> tmp.tmp branch about 10 days ago, then it merged into our hourly kernel to
> be running tests. so it's kind of 'stored' in our repo.
>
> since the bad commit caused crash issue on various test machines, we made out
> the report, but missed the check of whether branch is still existing remotely.
>
> we will refine our code/process to avoid this kind of meaningless report.

Thank you, much appreciated!

	Ingo