FAILED: patch "[PATCH] cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e5c6b312ce3cc97e90ea159446e6bfa06645364d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 15:29:17 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free
 sugov_tunables

The struct sugov_tunables is protected by the kobject, so we can't free
it directly. Otherwise we would get a call trace like this:
  ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x30
  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 720 at lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: a.sh Tainted: G        W         5.14.0-rc1-next-20210715-yocto-standard+ #507
  Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
  pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
  pc : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
  lr : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
  sp : ffff80001ecaf910
  x29: ffff80001ecaf910 x28: ffff00011b10b8d0 x27: ffff800011043d80
  x26: ffff00011a8f0000 x25: ffff800013cb3ff0 x24: 0000000000000000
  x23: ffff80001142aa68 x22: ffff800011043d80 x21: ffff00010de46f20
  x20: ffff800013c0c520 x19: ffff800011d8f5b0 x18: 0000000000000010
  x17: 6e6968207473696c x16: 5f72656d6974203a x15: 6570797420746365
  x14: 6a626f2029302065 x13: 303378302f307830 x12: 2b6e665f72656d69
  x11: ffff8000124b1560 x10: ffff800012331520 x9 : ffff8000100ca6b0
  x8 : 000000000017ffe8 x7 : c0000000fffeffff x6 : 0000000000000001
  x5 : ffff800011d8c000 x4 : ffff800011d8c740 x3 : 0000000000000000
  x2 : ffff0001108301c0 x1 : ab3c90eedf9c0f00 x0 : 0000000000000000
  Call trace:
   debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
   __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1c0/0x230
   debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x20/0x88
   slab_free_freelist_hook+0x154/0x1c8
   kfree+0x114/0x5d0
   sugov_exit+0xbc/0xc0
   cpufreq_exit_governor+0x44/0x90
   cpufreq_set_policy+0x268/0x4a8
   store_scaling_governor+0xe0/0x128
   store+0xc0/0xf0
   sysfs_kf_write+0x54/0x80
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x1c0
   new_sync_write+0xf0/0x190
   vfs_write+0x2d4/0x478
   ksys_write+0x74/0x100
   __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
   invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x54/0xe0
   do_el0_svc+0x64/0x158
   el0_svc+0x2c/0xb0
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb8
   el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
  irq event stamp: 5518
  hardirqs last  enabled at (5517): [<ffff8000100cbd7c>] console_unlock+0x554/0x6c8
  hardirqs last disabled at (5518): [<ffff800010fc0638>] el1_dbg+0x28/0xa0
  softirqs last  enabled at (5504): [<ffff8000100106e0>] __do_softirq+0x4d0/0x6c0
  softirqs last disabled at (5483): [<ffff800010049548>] irq_exit+0x1b0/0x1b8

So split the original sugov_tunables_free() into two functions,
sugov_clear_global_tunables() is just used to clear the global_tunables
and the new sugov_tunables_free() is used as kobj_type::release to
release the sugov_tunables safely.

Fixes: 9bdcb44e391d ("cpufreq: schedutil: New governor based on scheduler utilization data")
Cc: 4.7+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.7+
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index 57124614363d..e7af18857371 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -537,9 +537,17 @@ static struct attribute *sugov_attrs[] = {
 };
 ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(sugov);
 
+static void sugov_tunables_free(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+	struct gov_attr_set *attr_set = container_of(kobj, struct gov_attr_set, kobj);
+
+	kfree(to_sugov_tunables(attr_set));
+}
+
 static struct kobj_type sugov_tunables_ktype = {
 	.default_groups = sugov_groups,
 	.sysfs_ops = &governor_sysfs_ops,
+	.release = &sugov_tunables_free,
 };
 
 /********************** cpufreq governor interface *********************/
@@ -639,12 +647,10 @@ static struct sugov_tunables *sugov_tunables_alloc(struct sugov_policy *sg_polic
 	return tunables;
 }
 
-static void sugov_tunables_free(struct sugov_tunables *tunables)
+static void sugov_clear_global_tunables(void)
 {
 	if (!have_governor_per_policy())
 		global_tunables = NULL;
-
-	kfree(tunables);
 }
 
 static int sugov_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
@@ -707,7 +713,7 @@ out:
 fail:
 	kobject_put(&tunables->attr_set.kobj);
 	policy->governor_data = NULL;
-	sugov_tunables_free(tunables);
+	sugov_clear_global_tunables();
 
 stop_kthread:
 	sugov_kthread_stop(sg_policy);
@@ -734,7 +740,7 @@ static void sugov_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	count = gov_attr_set_put(&tunables->attr_set, &sg_policy->tunables_hook);
 	policy->governor_data = NULL;
 	if (!count)
-		sugov_tunables_free(tunables);
+		sugov_clear_global_tunables();
 
 	mutex_unlock(&global_tunables_lock);