Patch "cpuidle: Validate cpu_dev in cpuidle_add_sysfs()" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cpuidle: Validate cpu_dev in cpuidle_add_sysfs()

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cpuidle-validate-cpu_dev-in-cpuidle_add_sysfs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ad0a45fd9c14feebd000b6e84189d0edff265170 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:51:59 +0530
Subject: cpuidle: Validate cpu_dev in cpuidle_add_sysfs()

From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit ad0a45fd9c14feebd000b6e84189d0edff265170 upstream.

If a given cpu is not in cpu_present and cpu hotplug
is disabled, arch can skip setting up the cpu_dev.

Arch cpuidle driver should pass correct cpu mask
for registration, but failing to do so by the driver
causes error to propagate and crash like this:

[   30.076045] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000048
[   30.076100] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000007b2f30
cpu 0x4d: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000003feb18b670]
    pc: c0000000007b2f30: kobject_get+0x20/0x70
    lr: c0000000007b3c94: kobject_add_internal+0x54/0x3f0
    sp: c000003feb18b8f0
   msr: 9000000000009033
   dar: 48
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc000003fd2ed8300
  paca    = 0xc00000000fbab500   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 1, comm = swapper/0
Linux version 4.11.0-rc2-svaidy+ (sv@sagarika) (gcc version 6.2.0
20161005 (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12) ) #10 SMP Sun Mar 19 00:08:09 IST 2017
enter ? for help
[c000003feb18b960] c0000000007b3c94 kobject_add_internal+0x54/0x3f0
[c000003feb18b9f0] c0000000007b43a4 kobject_init_and_add+0x64/0xa0
[c000003feb18ba70] c000000000e284f4 cpuidle_add_sysfs+0xb4/0x130
[c000003feb18baf0] c000000000e26038 cpuidle_register_device+0x118/0x1c0
[c000003feb18bb30] c000000000e26c48 cpuidle_register+0x78/0x120
[c000003feb18bbc0] c00000000168fd9c powernv_processor_idle_init+0x110/0x1c4
[c000003feb18bc40] c00000000000cff8 do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0
[c000003feb18bd00] c0000000016242f4 kernel_init_freeable+0x280/0x360
[c000003feb18bdc0] c00000000000d864 kernel_init+0x24/0x160
[c000003feb18be30] c00000000000b4e8 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74

Validating cpu_dev fixes the crash and reports correct error message like:

[   30.163506] Failed to register cpuidle device for cpu136
[   30.173329] Registration of powernv driver failed.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ rjw: Comment massage ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
@@ -615,6 +615,18 @@ int cpuidle_add_sysfs(struct cpuidle_dev
 	struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device((unsigned long)dev->cpu);
 	int error;
 
+	/*
+	 * Return if cpu_device is not setup for this CPU.
+	 *
+	 * This could happen if the arch did not set up cpu_device
+	 * since this CPU is not in cpu_present mask and the
+	 * driver did not send a correct CPU mask during registration.
+	 * Without this check we would end up passing bogus
+	 * value for &cpu_dev->kobj in kobject_init_and_add()
+	 */
+	if (!cpu_dev)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	kdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*kdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.10/cpuidle-validate-cpu_dev-in-cpuidle_add_sysfs.patch