From: Ingo Molnar the patch below fixes this crash: http://www.graggrag.com/200501271213-oops/no-smp-oops-200501271213.txt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/kernel/sched.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/sched.c~rlimit_rt_cpu-fix kernel/sched.c --- 25/kernel/sched.c~rlimit_rt_cpu-fix 2005-01-27 00:53:17.151571088 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/sched.c 2005-01-27 00:53:17.159569872 -0800 @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ static int rt_task_over_cpu_limit(struct * running on this CPU, and if the current RT CPU usage value * violates the task's RT CPU rlimit: */ - if (!rt_task(p) || !non_rt_tasks(rq)) + if (!rt_task(p) || !non_rt_tasks(rq) || !p->signal) return 0; limit = p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RT_CPU].rlim_cur; _