diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
index f3d140c3acc1..fe782cd77388 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ config SCHED_CORE
 config SCHED_CLASS_EXT
 	bool "Extensible Scheduling Class"
 	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && BPF_JIT && DEBUG_INFO_BTF
+	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 	help
 	  This option enables a new scheduler class sched_ext (SCX), which
 	  allows scheduling policies to be implemented as BPF programs to
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
index 4a07deb30c44..6f7c7d8b56de 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -4330,7 +4330,7 @@ static void scx_dump_task(struct seq_buf *s, struct scx_dump_ctx *dctx,
 	static unsigned long bt[SCX_EXIT_BT_LEN];
 	char dsq_id_buf[19] = "(n/a)";
 	unsigned long ops_state = atomic_long_read(&p->scx.ops_state);
-	unsigned int bt_len;
+	unsigned int bt_len = 0;
 
 	if (p->scx.dsq)
 		scnprintf(dsq_id_buf, sizeof(dsq_id_buf), "0x%llx",
@@ -4355,7 +4355,9 @@ static void scx_dump_task(struct seq_buf *s, struct scx_dump_ctx *dctx,
 		ops_dump_exit();
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
 	bt_len = stack_trace_save_tsk(p, bt, SCX_EXIT_BT_LEN, 1);
+#endif
 	if (bt_len) {
 		dump_newline(s);
 		dump_stack_trace(s, "    ", bt, bt_len);