On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 05:52:11PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
>
> 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.
All now applied to the 3.14-stable queue, thanks.
greg k-h
