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[V2] cpuidle: check dev before usage in cpuidle_use_deepest_state

Message ID BEC9F67575FA1E429CA7CF5AE9BE363432A457C3@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Delegated to: Rafael Wysocki
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fli24 April 27, 2017, 1:47 a.m. UTC
In case of there is no cpuidle devices registered, dev will be null, and
panic will be triggered like below;
In this patch, add checking of dev before usage, like that done in
cpuidle_idle_call.

Panic without fix:
[  184.961328] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
  (null)
[  184.961328] IP: cpuidle_use_deepest_state+0x30/0x60
...
[  184.961328]  play_idle+0x8d/0x210
[  184.961328]  ? __schedule+0x359/0x8e0
[  184.961328]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x50
[  184.961328]  ? kthread_queue_delayed_work+0x41/0x80
[  184.961328]  clamp_idle_injection_func+0x64/0x1e0

Fixes: bb8313b603eb8 ("cpuidle: Allow enforcing deepest idle state selection")
Signed-off-by: Li, Fei <fei.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Shi, Feng <fengx.shi@intel.com>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Andy Shevchenko April 27, 2017, 9:39 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 01:47 +0000, Li, Fei wrote:
> In case of there is no cpuidle devices registered, dev will be null,
> and
> panic will be triggered like below;
> In this patch, add checking of dev before usage, like that done in
> cpuidle_idle_call.
> 
> Panic without fix:
> [  184.961328] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
> at
>   (null)
> [  184.961328] IP: cpuidle_use_deepest_state+0x30/0x60
> ...
> [  184.961328]  play_idle+0x8d/0x210
> [  184.961328]  ? __schedule+0x359/0x8e0
> [  184.961328]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x50
> [  184.961328]  ? kthread_queue_delayed_work+0x41/0x80
> [  184.961328]  clamp_idle_injection_func+0x64/0x1e0

FWIW:
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

P.S. V2 is mistakenly left from internal review AFAIU.

> 
> Fixes: bb8313b603eb8 ("cpuidle: Allow enforcing deepest idle state
> selection")
> Signed-off-by: Li, Fei <fei.li@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Shi, Feng <fengx.shi@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> index 548b90b..2706be7 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ void cpuidle_use_deepest_state(bool enable)
>  
>  	preempt_disable();
>  	dev = cpuidle_get_device();
> -	dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
> +	if (dev)
> +		dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
>  	preempt_enable();
>  }
>
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diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 548b90b..2706be7 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@  void cpuidle_use_deepest_state(bool enable)
 
 	preempt_disable();
 	dev = cpuidle_get_device();
-	dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
+	if (dev)
+		dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
 	preempt_enable();
 }