Re: [PATCH] fix off-by-one in __iterator_load_balance

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 06:02:35 EST



* David Newall <davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Newall wrote:
> > An off-by-one bug in __iterator_load_balance causes it to erroneously
> > return NULL if the next task on the list is also the last entry in the
> > list. This patch corrects that fault.
> >
>
> Patch withdrawn. Who'd have thought 2.6.27.19 was so out of date?

Yeah, the 2.6.27 -> latest-sched-devel distance is more than 250
commits already - that's a lot of commits for the scheduler
which is only 15 KLOC. Patches done on .27 are unlikely to apply
- and bugs are often fixed already.

Ingo
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