On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 07:52:18AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 04:31:17PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:21:39AM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:18:05AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:49:40AM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > > > > > @@ -34,8 +34,12 @@ void cpufreq_add_update_util_hook(int cpu, struct update_util_data *data, > > > > > if (WARN_ON(!data || !func)) > > > > > return; > > > > > > > > > > - if (WARN_ON(per_cpu(cpufreq_update_util_data, cpu))) > > > > > + rcu_read_lock(); > > > > > + if (WARN_ON(rcu_dereference(per_cpu(cpufreq_update_util_data, cpu)))) { > > > > > + rcu_read_unlock(); > > > > > return; > > > > > + } > > > > > + rcu_read_unlock(); > > > > > > > > > > data->func = func; > > > > > rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(cpufreq_update_util_data, cpu), data); > For whatever it is worth, in that case it could use rcu_access_pointer(). > And this primitive does not do the lockdep check for being within an RCU > read-side critical section. As Peter says, if there is no dereferencing, > there can be no use-after-free bug, so the RCU read-side critical is > not needed. On top of that, I suspect this is under the write-side lock (we're doing assignment after all).