This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: timers-unconditionally-check-deferrable-base.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ed4bbf7910b28ce3c691aef28d245585eaabda06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:19:49 +0100 Subject: timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ed4bbf7910b28ce3c691aef28d245585eaabda06 upstream. When the timer base is checked for expired timers then the deferrable base must be checked as well. This was missed when making the deferrable base independent of base::nohz_active. Fixes: ced6d5c11d3e ("timers: Use deferrable base independent of base::nohz_active") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/time/timer.c +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c @@ -1696,7 +1696,7 @@ void run_local_timers(void) hrtimer_run_queues(); /* Raise the softirq only if required. */ if (time_before(jiffies, base->clk)) { - if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) || !base->nohz_active) + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)) return; /* CPU is awake, so check the deferrable base. */ base++; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/futex-prevent-overflow-by-strengthen-input-validation.patch queue-4.9/timers-unconditionally-check-deferrable-base.patch