From: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2c1b5a84669d2477d8fffe9136e86a2cff591729 upstream. When I hot added a CPU, I found 'cpufreq' directory was not created below /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/. It is because get_cpu_device() failed in add_cpu_dev_symlink(). cpufreq_add_dev() is the .add_dev callback of a CPU subsys interface. It will be called when the CPU device registered into the system. The call chain is as follows: register_cpu() ->device_register() ->device_add() ->bus_probe_device() ->cpufreq_add_dev() But only after the CPU device has been registered, we can get the CPU device by get_cpu_device(), otherwise it will return NULL. Since we already have the CPU device in cpufreq_add_dev(), pass it to add_cpu_dev_symlink(). I noticed that the 'kobj' of the CPU device has been added into the system before cpufreq_add_dev(). Fixes: 2f0ba790df51 ("cpufreq: Fix creation of symbolic links to policy directories") Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: All applicable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -1004,10 +1004,9 @@ static struct kobj_type ktype_cpufreq = .release = cpufreq_sysfs_release, }; -static void add_cpu_dev_symlink(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int cpu) +static void add_cpu_dev_symlink(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int cpu, + struct device *dev) { - struct device *dev = get_cpu_device(cpu); - if (unlikely(!dev)) return; @@ -1391,7 +1390,7 @@ static int cpufreq_online(unsigned int c if (new_policy) { for_each_cpu(j, policy->related_cpus) { per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = policy; - add_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, j); + add_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, j, get_cpu_device(j)); } policy->min_freq_req = kzalloc(2 * sizeof(*policy->min_freq_req), @@ -1553,7 +1552,7 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev(struct device /* Create sysfs link on CPU registration */ policy = per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, cpu); if (policy) - add_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, cpu); + add_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, cpu, dev); return 0; }