Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: Properly handle errors from cpufreq_init_policy()

From: Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
Date: Wed Jul 08 2015 - 07:18:09 EST


On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 15:12 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> cpufreq_init_policy() can fail, and we don't do anything except a call
> to ->exit() on that. The policy should be freed if this happens.
>
> Lets do it properly.
>
> Reported-by: "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I tried these patches without the earlier "cpufreq: Initialize the
governor again while restoring policy" patch.

The result is that the error when bringing a cpu online is with flagged
up with a kernel message:

cpufreq: cpufreq_add_dev: Failed to initialize policy for cpu: 1 (-16)

and afterwards, the sysfs entries that I was poking and causing the
crash aren't present. So looks like this patch has done what we want,
and cleaned things up after an error. So...

Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the prompt fix.

> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index b7aac8eec525..006299214d2e 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1051,11 +1051,10 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev_interface(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
> return cpufreq_add_dev_symlink(policy);
> }
>
> -static void cpufreq_init_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> +static int cpufreq_init_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> {
> struct cpufreq_governor *gov = NULL;
> struct cpufreq_policy new_policy;
> - int ret = 0;
>
> memcpy(&new_policy, policy, sizeof(*policy));
>
> @@ -1074,12 +1073,7 @@ static void cpufreq_init_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> cpufreq_parse_governor(gov->name, &new_policy.policy, NULL);
>
> /* set default policy */
> - ret = cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
> - if (ret) {
> - pr_debug("setting policy failed\n");
> - if (cpufreq_driver->exit)
> - cpufreq_driver->exit(policy);
> - }
> + return cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
> }
>
> static int cpufreq_add_policy_cpu(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
> @@ -1376,7 +1370,12 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, struct subsys_interface *sif)
> write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> }
>
> - cpufreq_init_policy(policy);
> + ret = cpufreq_init_policy(policy);
> + if (ret) {
> + pr_err("%s: Failed to initialize policy for cpu: %d (%d)\n",
> + __func__, cpu, ret);
> + goto out_remove_policy_notify;
> + }
>
> if (!recover_policy) {
> policy->user_policy.policy = policy->policy;
> @@ -1396,6 +1395,9 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, struct subsys_interface *sif)
>
> return 0;
>
> +out_remove_policy_notify:
> + /* cpufreq_policy_free() will notify based on this */
> + recover_policy = true;
> out_exit_policy:
> up_write(&policy->rwsem);
>


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