On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Ben Pineau wrote: > Hello, > > The following two patches series, merged in mainline 4.7, was Cc'ed to stable@, > but somehow didn't made its way to the 4.4.x stable tree: > 754bd598be9bbc953bc709a9e8ed7f3188bfb9d7 > 094f469172e00d6ab0a3130b0e01c83b3cf3a98d > > Links to the discussions: > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146608185431676 > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146608184031673 > > This patch series address a real life issue, ie. we're seeing an > oopsing machine about every day on a kubernetes cluster, and > other users reported the same problem, for instance : > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1687512 > https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/issues/874 > > Those two patches are also on their way for inclusion in the current > (4.4 based) LTS Ubuntu release : > https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/xenial/+ref/master-next > > Could this series be considered for 4.4-stable inclusion by any chance ? > > For ref, the stacktrace I'm getting on an unpatched 4.4.67 kernel: > > [168797.975683] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at 0000000000000050 > [168797.976656] Call Trace: > [168797.976656] [<ffffffff810bbef5>] pick_next_task_fair+0x75/0x4b0 > [168797.976656] [<ffffffff816f38a1>] __schedule+0x6c1/0x7f0 > [168797.976656] [<ffffffff816f3a05>] schedule+0x35/0x80 > [168797.976656] [<ffffffff816f3cee>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10 > [168797.976656] [<ffffffff810c299a>] cpu_startup_entry+0x19a/0x360 > [168797.976656] [<ffffffff810512f0>] start_secondary+0x160/0x1a0 > [168797.976656] RIP [<ffffffff810b562f>] pick_next_entity+0x7f/0x160 Sure, I'll be glad to take them if I can get an ack from the patch authors, and reviewers (added to: and cc:)... Ingo and Peter, any objections? thanks, greg k-h