There is a little race discovered by Juri, where we are able to:
- create and read a sysfs file before policy->governor_data is being set
to a non NULL value.
OR
- set policy->governor_data to NULL, and reading a file before being
destroyed.
And so such a crash is reported:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c
pgd = edfc8000
[0000000c] *pgd=bfc8c835
Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 4 PID: 1730 Comm: cat Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1+ #463
Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
task: ee8e8480 ti: ee930000 task.ti: ee930000
PC is at show_ignore_nice_load_gov_pol+0x24/0x34
LR is at show+0x4c/0x60
pc : [<c058f1bc>] lr : [<c058ae88>] psr: a0070013
sp : ee931dd0 ip : ee931de0 fp : ee931ddc
r10: ee4bc290 r9 : 00001000 r8 : ef2cb000
r7 : ee4bc200 r6 : ef2cb000 r5 : c0af57b0 r4 : ee4bc2e0
r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : c0928df4 r0 : ef2cb000
Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
Control: 10c5387d Table: adfc806a DAC: 00000051
Process cat (pid: 1730, stack limit = 0xee930210)
Stack: (0xee931dd0 to 0xee932000)
1dc0: ee931dfc ee931de0 c058ae88 c058f1a4
1de0: edce3bc0 c07bfca4 edce3ac0 00001000 ee931e24 ee931e00 c01fcb90 c058ae48
1e00: 00000001 edce3bc0 00000000 00000001 ee931e50 ee8ff480 ee931e34 ee931e28
1e20: c01fb33c c01fcb0c ee931e8c ee931e38 c01a5210 c01fb314 ee931e9c ee931e48
1e40: 00000000 edce3bf0 befe4a00 ee931f78 00000000 00000000 000001e4 00000000
1e60: c00545a8 edce3ac0 00001000 00001000 befe4a00 ee931f78 00000000 00001000
1e80: ee931ed4 ee931e90 c01fbed8 c01a5038 ed085a58 00020000 00000000 00000000
1ea0: c0ad72e4 ee931f78 ee8ff488 ee8ff480 c077f3fc 00001000 befe4a00 ee931f78
1ec0: 00000000 00001000 ee931f44 ee931ed8 c017c328 c01fbdc4 00001000 00000000
1ee0: ee8ff480 00001000 ee931f44 ee931ef8 c017c65c c03deb10 ee931fac ee931f08
1f00: c0009270 c001f290 c0a8d968 ef2cb000 ef2cb000 ee8ff480 00000020 ee8ff480
1f20: ee8ff480 befe4a00 00001000 ee931f78 00000000 00000000 ee931f74 ee931f48
1f40: c017d1ec c017c2f8 c019c724 c019c684 ee8ff480 ee8ff480 00001000 befe4a00
1f60: 00000000 00000000 ee931fa4 ee931f78 c017d2a8 c017d160 00000000 00000000
1f80: 000a9f20 00001000 befe4a00 00000003 c000ffe4 ee930000 00000000 ee931fa8
1fa0: c000fe40 c017d264 000a9f20 00001000 00000003 befe4a00 00001000 00000000
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c
1fc0: 000a9f20 00001000 befe4a00 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000003 00000001
pgd = edfc4000
[0000000c] *pgd=bfcac835
1fe0: 00000000 befe49dc 000197f8 b6e35dfc 60070010 00000003 3065b49d 134ac2c9
[<c058f1bc>] (show_ignore_nice_load_gov_pol) from [<c058ae88>] (show+0x4c/0x60)
[<c058ae88>] (show) from [<c01fcb90>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x90/0xfc)
[<c01fcb90>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show) from [<c01fb33c>] (kernfs_seq_show+0x34/0x38)
[<c01fb33c>] (kernfs_seq_show) from [<c01a5210>] (seq_read+0x1e4/0x4e4)
[<c01a5210>] (seq_read) from [<c01fbed8>] (kernfs_fop_read+0x120/0x1a0)
[<c01fbed8>] (kernfs_fop_read) from [<c017c328>] (__vfs_read+0x3c/0xe0)
[<c017c328>] (__vfs_read) from [<c017d1ec>] (vfs_read+0x98/0x104)
[<c017d1ec>] (vfs_read) from [<c017d2a8>] (SyS_read+0x50/0x90)
[<c017d2a8>] (SyS_read) from [<c000fe40>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
Code: e5903044 e1a00001 e3081df4 e34c1092 (e593300c)
---[ end trace 5994b9a5111f35ee ]---
Fix that by making sure, policy->governor_data is updated at the right
places only.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.2+
Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
index bab3a514ec12..e0d111024d48 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
@@ -387,16 +387,18 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
if (!have_governor_per_policy())
cdata->gdbs_data = dbs_data;
+ policy->governor_data = dbs_data;
+
ret = sysfs_create_group(get_governor_parent_kobj(policy),
get_sysfs_attr(dbs_data));
if (ret)
goto reset_gdbs_data;
- policy->governor_data = dbs_data;
-
return 0;
reset_gdbs_data:
+ policy->governor_data = NULL;
+
if (!have_governor_per_policy())
cdata->gdbs_data = NULL;
cdata->exit(dbs_data, !policy->governor->initialized);
@@ -417,16 +419,19 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
if (!cdbs->shared || cdbs->shared->policy)
return -EBUSY;
- policy->governor_data = NULL;
if (!--dbs_data->usage_count) {
sysfs_remove_group(get_governor_parent_kobj(policy),
get_sysfs_attr(dbs_data));
+ policy->governor_data = NULL;
+
if (!have_governor_per_policy())
cdata->gdbs_data = NULL;
cdata->exit(dbs_data, policy->governor->initialized == 1);
kfree(dbs_data);
+ } else {
+ policy->governor_data = NULL;
}
free_common_dbs_info(policy, cdata);
--
2.7.0.79.gdc08a19
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