Viresh,
On 2014/12/18 14:29, Viresh Kumar wrote:
On 18 December 2014 at 11:58, Ethan Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
If _PPC changed notification happens before governor was initiated while kernel
is booting, a NULL pointer dereference will be triggered:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030
IP: [<ffffffff81470453>] __cpufreq_governor+0x23/0x1e0
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
... ...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81470453>] [<ffffffff81470453>]
__cpufreq_governor+0x23/0x1e0
RSP: 0018:ffff881fcfbcfbb8 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff881fd11b3980 RCX: ffff88407fc20000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff881fd11b3980
RBP: ffff881fcfbcfbd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000000f
R10: ffffffff818068d0 R11: 0000000000000043 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8196cae0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff881fffc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000030 CR3: 00000000018ae000 CR4: 00000000000407f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kworker/0:3 (pid: 750, threadinfo ffff881fcfbce000, task
ffff881fcf556400)
Stack:
ffff881fffc17d00 ffff881fcfbcfc18 ffff881fd11b3980 0000000000000000
ffff881fcfbcfc08 ffffffff81470d08 ffff881fd11b3980 0000000000000007
ffff881fcfbcfc18 ffff881fffc17d00 ffff881fcfbcfd28 ffffffff81472e9a
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81470d08>] __cpufreq_set_policy+0x1b8/0x2e0
[<ffffffff81472e9a>] cpufreq_update_policy+0xca/0x150
[<ffffffff81472f20>] ? cpufreq_update_policy+0x150/0x150
[<ffffffff81324a96>] acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed+0x71/0x7b
[<ffffffff81320bcd>] acpi_processor_notify+0x55/0x115
[<ffffffff812f9c29>] acpi_device_notify+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffff813084ca>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x41/0x5f
[<ffffffff812f64a4>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x27/0x34
The root cause is a race conditon -- cpufreq core and acpi-cpufreq driver
were initiated, but cpufreq_governor wasn't and _PPC changed notification
happened, __cpufreq_governor() was called within acpi_os_execute_deferred
kernel thread context.
To fix this panic issue, add pointer checking code in __cpufreq_governor()
before pointer policy->governor is to be dereferenced.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
---
v2&v3: correct comment style.
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 4473eba..b75735c 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -2021,6 +2021,11 @@ static int __cpufreq_governor(struct cpufreq_policy
*policy,
/* Don't start any governor operations if we are entering suspend */
if (cpufreq_suspended)
return 0;
+ /*
+ * Governor might not be initiated here if _PPC changed notification
+ * happened, check it.
+ */
+ if (!policy->governor)
+ return -EINVAL;
if (policy->governor->max_transition_latency &&
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency >
It will take me sometime to get cpufreq core simplified, till that time
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
to yet another band-aid :)
Maybe more band-aid needed before it is be done.
Thanks,
Ethan
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