linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/cpuacct: Check for NULL when using task_pt

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Message-ID: <20160406132637.GA2108@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:56:37 +0530
From:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	efault@....de, htejun@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tj@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	zhaolei@...fujitsu.com, yangds.fnst@...fujitsu.com, hpa@...or.com,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/cpuacct: Check for NULL when using task_pt_regs()

* Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> [2016-04-06 21:59:50]:

> Looks good, and the patch below does fix the oops for me.
> 
> Anton
> --
> 
> task_pt_regs() can return NULL for kernel threads, so add a check.
> This fixes an oops at boot on ppc64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>

Works for me too.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju