[PATCH] sched_ext: Set errno on ENABLING -> ENABLED transition failure

From: luoliang

Date: Tue Jul 28 2026 - 02:13:04 EST


From: Liang Luo <luoliang@xxxxxxxxxx>

If the SCX_ENABLING -> SCX_ENABLED cmpxchg at the tail of
scx_root_enable_workfn() fails, the function jumps to err_disable
without setting ret. At that point ret still holds the return value
of the last successful __scx_init_task() call, which is 0, so the
err_disable fallback reports the meaningless message:

scx_root_enable() failed (0)

Set ret = -EBUSY, consistent with the other enable-state guards at
the top of the same function, so the fallback always reports a real
errno.

Signed-off-by: Liang Luo <luoliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
index 312938179e52..6a3e94707c8b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
@@ -7520,6 +7520,7 @@ static void scx_root_enable_workfn(struct kthread_work *work)

if (!scx_tryset_enable_state(SCX_ENABLED, SCX_ENABLING)) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&sch->exit_kind) == SCX_EXIT_NONE);
+ ret = -EBUSY;
goto err_disable;
}

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2.43.0