Re: Linux 6.12.2

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Dec 06 2024 - 00:47:55 EST


On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 06:24:36PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-12-06 at 00:07 +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> > > 6.12.1 works fine but 6.12.2 generates lots of errors during
> ...
> >
> >
> > As Linus has indicated in:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAHk-
> > =whGd0dfaJNiWSR60HH5iwxqhUZPDWgHCQd446gH2Wu0yQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > the problem is the missing commit b23decf8ac91 ("sched: Initialize
> > idle tasks
> > only once"). Applying that on top of 6.12.2 fixes the problem.
> >
> > We just encountered this issue in Gentoo as well when releasing a new
> > kernel
> > and adding that patch has resolved the issue.
> >
> > > Thought it best to share before I start to work on bisect....
>
> > No need to, just add b23decf8ac91 :)
> >
> > cheers
> > Holger
> >
> Excellent - missed that completely. 
> I will stop bisecting now, thank you so much.

Sorry about this, I'll go push out a new kernel with this fix in it now.

greg k-h