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 4.19-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-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b7e59d4a2605da3fa3c1e0cca33feed6b07ce818 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 541486217984b..1302e1900dcb1 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ 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; return brcm_avs_get_frequency(priv->base);