This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cpufreq-brcmstb-avs-cpufreq-add-check-for-cpufreq_cp.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c13dee43fe75e2780198d476e37cbf9c61e42c3f
Author: Anastasia Belova <abelova@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jan 17 10:12:20 2024 +0300
cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value
[ Upstream commit f661017e6d326ee187db24194cabb013d81bc2a6 ]
cpufreq_cpu_get may return NULL. To avoid NULL-dereference check it
and return 0 in case of error.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: de322e085995 ("cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: AVS CPUfreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs")
Signed-off-by: Anastasia Belova <abelova@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c
index 35fb3a559ea97..1a1857b0a6f48 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ static bool brcm_avs_is_firmware_loaded(struct private_data *priv)
static unsigned int brcm_avs_cpufreq_get(unsigned int cpu)
{
struct cpufreq_policy *policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
+ if (!policy)
+ return 0;
struct private_data *priv = policy->driver_data;
cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
