Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler fix from Borislav Petkov:
 "Fix a NULL-ptr dereference when recalculating a sched entity's weight"

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -1214,8 +1214,9 @@ int tg_nop(struct task_group *tg, void *data)
 }
 #endif
 
-static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p, bool update_load)
+static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	bool update_load = !(READ_ONCE(p->__state) & TASK_NEW);
 	int prio = p->static_prio - MAX_RT_PRIO;
 	struct load_weight *load = &p->se.load;
 
@@ -4406,7 +4407,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 			p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(0);
 
 		p->prio = p->normal_prio = p->static_prio;
-		set_load_weight(p, false);
+		set_load_weight(p);
 
 		/*
 		 * We don't need the reset flag anymore after the fork. It has
@@ -6921,7 +6922,7 @@ void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice)
 		put_prev_task(rq, p);
 
 	p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(nice);
-	set_load_weight(p, true);
+	set_load_weight(p);
 	old_prio = p->prio;
 	p->prio = effective_prio(p);
 
@@ -7212,7 +7213,7 @@ static void __setscheduler_params(struct task_struct *p,
 	 */
 	p->rt_priority = attr->sched_priority;
 	p->normal_prio = normal_prio(p);
-	set_load_weight(p, true);
+	set_load_weight(p);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -9445,7 +9446,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 #endif
 	}
 
-	set_load_weight(&init_task, false);
+	set_load_weight(&init_task);
 
 	/*
 	 * The boot idle thread does lazy MMU switching as well: