On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 08:13:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>         atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);  <<---- BUG
> unlock:
>         rcu_read_unlock();
> }

tip/sched/urgent has this one:

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commit 42eb088ed246a5a817bb45a8b32fe234cf1c0f8b
Author: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 19 16:41:49 2013 +0100

    sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy
    
    Commit 37dc6b50cee9 ("sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched
    domains to update nr_busy_cpus") forgot to clear 'sd_busy' under some
    conditions leading to a possible NULL deref in set_cpu_sd_state_idle().
    
    Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
    Cc: Preeti U Murthy <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
    Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c1808606ee5f..a1591ca7eb5a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4910,8 +4910,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
        if (sd) {
                id = cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd));
                size = cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd));
-               rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd->parent);
+               sd = sd->parent; /* sd_busy */
        }
+       rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd);
 
        rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu), sd);
        per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu) = size;
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