From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> To protect against races with concurrent CPU online/offline, call get_online_cpus() before registering a cpufreq driver.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c =================================================================== --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -2471,10 +2471,14 @@ int cpufreq_register_driver(struct cpufr pr_debug("trying to register driver %s\n", driver_data->name); + /* Protect against concurrent CPU online/offline. */ + get_online_cpus(); + write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); if (cpufreq_driver) { write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); - return -EEXIST; + ret = -EEXIST; + goto out; } cpufreq_driver = driver_data; write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); @@ -2513,7 +2517,10 @@ int cpufreq_register_driver(struct cpufr register_hotcpu_notifier(&cpufreq_cpu_notifier); pr_debug("driver %s up and running\n", driver_data->name); - return 0; +out: + put_online_cpus(); + return ret; + err_if_unreg: subsys_interface_unregister(&cpufreq_interface); err_boost_unreg: @@ -2523,7 +2530,7 @@ err_null_driver: write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); cpufreq_driver = NULL; write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); - return ret; + goto out; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpufreq_register_driver); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

