From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from LGEAMRELO11.lge.com ([156.147.23.51]:60778 "EHLO lgeamrelo11.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751371AbcAEIw0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2016 03:52:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:52:11 +0900 From: Byungchul Park To: CC: peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches Message-ID: <20160105085211.GB3621@X58A-UD3R> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Upstream commits to be applied ============================== e3fca9e: sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list 4c9a4bc: sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed() 8046d68: sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task() fd7a4be: sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks 0ea60c2: sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task() 9916e21: sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks The reason why these should be applied ====================================== Our products developed using 3.16 kernel, faced a kernel oops which can be fixed with above upstreamed patches. The oops is caused by "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000xx" in the call path, __sched_setscheduler() check_class_changed() switched_to_fair() check_preempt_curr() check_preempt_wakeup() find_matching_se() is_same_group() by "if (se->cfs_rq == pse->cfs_rq) // se, pse == NULL" condition. How to apply it =============== For stable 4.2.8+: N/A (already applied) For longterm 4.1.15: Cherry-picking the upsteam commits works with a trivial conflict. For longterm 3.18.25: Refer to the backported patches in this thread. For longterm 3.14.58: Refer to the backported patches in this thread. And applying additional "6c3b4d4: sched: Clean up idle task SMP logic" commit makes backporting the upstream commits much simpler. So my backporting patches include the patch. For longterm 2.6.32.69 ~ 3.12.51: Need to be backported. (I didn't)