linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] sched_ext: Another fix for v6.18-rc6

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Message-ID: <6f7a101d95d9bc9ff02662c35f45911c@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:01:32 -1000
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>, Andrea Righi <arighi@...dia.com>,
 Changwoo Min <changwoo@...lia.com>, sched-ext@...ts.linux.dev,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] sched_ext: Another fix for v6.18-rc6

Hi Linus,

The following changes since commit 36c6f3c03d104faf1aa90922f2310549c175420f:

  sched_ext: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to initialize rq->scx.kick_cpus_irq_work (2025-11-17 05:07:22 -1000)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext.git tags/sched_ext-for-6.18-rc6-fixes-2

for you to fetch changes up to 7b6216baae751369195fa3c83d434d23bcda406a:

  sched_ext: Fix scx_enable() crash on helper kthread creation failure (2025-11-20 08:45:43 -1000)

----------------------------------------------------------------
sched_ext: Fixes for v6.18-rc6

One low risk and obvious fix:

- scx_enable() was dereferencing error pointer on helper kthread creation
  failure. Fixed.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Saket Kumar Bhaskar (1):
      sched_ext: Fix scx_enable() crash on helper kthread creation failure

 kernel/sched/ext.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks.

--
tejun