Two sched patchs missing from 4.4-stable: inclusion possible?

From: Ben Pineau
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 05:11:33 EST


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

Thanks