@@ -1417,9 +1417,10 @@ static int __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish(struct device *dev,
unsigned long flags;
struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
- read_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
+ write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
policy = per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, cpu);
- read_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
+ per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, cpu) = NULL;
+ write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
if (!policy) {
pr_debug("%s: No cpu_data found\n", __func__);
@@ -1474,7 +1475,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish(struct device *dev,
}
}
- per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, cpu) = NULL;
return 0;
}
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled cpufreq: Set cpufreq_cpu_data to NULL before putting kobject to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt8. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From a71f2f60909654f882c02cec1e37109e8e157b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 06:02:44 +0530 Subject: cpufreq: Set cpufreq_cpu_data to NULL before putting kobject commit 6ffae8c06fab058d6c3f8ecb7f921327721034e7 upstream. In __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish(), per-cpu 'cpufreq_cpu_data' needs to be cleared before calling kobject_put(&policy->kobj) and under cpufreq_driver_lock. Otherwise, if someone else calls cpufreq_cpu_get() in parallel with it, they can obtain a non-NULL policy from that after kobject_put(&policy->kobj) was executed. Consider this case: Thread A Thread B cpufreq_cpu_get() acquire cpufreq_driver_lock read-per-cpu cpufreq_cpu_data kobject_put(&policy->kobj); kobject_get(&policy->kobj); ... per_cpu(&cpufreq_cpu_data, cpu) = NULL And this will result in a warning like this one: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4 at include/linux/kref.h:47 kobject_get+0x41/0x50() Modules linked in: acpi_cpufreq(+) nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc xfs libcrc32c sd_mod ixgbe igb mdio ahci hwmon ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff81661b14>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58 [<ffffffff81072b61>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xa0 [<ffffffff81072c7a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff812e16d1>] kobject_get+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff815262a5>] cpufreq_cpu_get+0x75/0xc0 [<ffffffff81527c3e>] cpufreq_update_policy+0x2e/0x1f0 [<ffffffff810b8cb2>] ? up+0x32/0x50 [<ffffffff81381aa9>] ? acpi_ns_get_node+0xcb/0xf2 [<ffffffff81381efd>] ? acpi_evaluate_object+0x22c/0x252 [<ffffffff813824f6>] ? acpi_get_handle+0x95/0xc0 [<ffffffff81360967>] ? acpi_has_method+0x25/0x40 [<ffffffff81391e08>] acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed+0x77/0x82 [<ffffffff81089566>] ? move_linked_works+0x66/0x90 [<ffffffff8138e8ed>] acpi_processor_notify+0x58/0xe7 [<ffffffff8137410c>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x44/0x5c [<ffffffff8135f293>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x15/0x22 [<ffffffff8108c910>] process_one_work+0x160/0x410 [<ffffffff8108d05b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x520 [<ffffffff8108cf40>] ? rescuer_thread+0x380/0x380 [<ffffffff81092421>] kthread+0xe1/0x100 [<ffffffff81092340>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1b0/0x1b0 [<ffffffff81669ebc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81092340>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1b0/0x1b0 ---[ end trace 89e66eb9795efdf7 ]--- The actual code flow is as follows: Thread A: Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_processor_notify() acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed() cpufreq_update_policy() cpufreq_cpu_get() kobject_get() Thread B: xenbus_thread() xenbus_thread() msg->u.watch.handle->callback() handle_vcpu_hotplug_event() vcpu_hotplug() cpu_down() __cpu_notify(CPU_POST_DEAD..) cpufreq_cpu_callback() __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish() cpufreq_policy_put_kobj() kobject_put() cpufreq_cpu_get() gets the policy from per-cpu variable cpufreq_cpu_data under cpufreq_driver_lock, and once it gets a valid policy it expects it to not be freed until cpufreq_cpu_put() is called. But the race happens when another thread puts the kobject first and updates cpufreq_cpu_data before or later. And so the first thread gets a valid policy structure and before it does kobject_get() on it, the second one has already done kobject_put(). Fix this by setting cpufreq_cpu_data to NULL before putting the kobject and that too under locks. Reported-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com> Reported-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)