Re: [PATCH v8 04/13] cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix kernel hang issue while amd-pstate unregistering

[Limonciello, Mario]

On 12/19/2022 00:40, Perry Yuan wrote:
> In the amd_pstate_adjust_perf(), there is one cpufreq_cpu_get() call to
> increase increments the kobject reference count of policy and make it as
> busy. Therefore, a corresponding call to cpufreq_cpu_put() is needed to
> decrement the kobject reference count back, it will resolve the kernel
> hang issue when unregistering the amd-pstate driver and register the
> `amd_pstate_epp` driver instance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx>

Even if this patch comes into mainline through the series, this 
particular patch should go to stable too to fix users unloading 
amd-pstate with the existing passive mode.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>   drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> index 204e39006dda..c17bd845f5fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> @@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ static void amd_pstate_adjust_perf(unsigned int cpu,
>   		max_perf = min_perf;
>   
>   	amd_pstate_update(cpudata, min_perf, des_perf, max_perf, true);
> +	cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
>   }
>   
>   static int amd_get_min_freq(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata)