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* [PATCH] cpufreq: dereference cpufreq_driver after check
@ 2013-02-11 14:37 Andy Shevchenko
  2013-02-11 15:13 ` Viresh Kumar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andy Shevchenko @ 2013-02-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cpufreq, linux-pm, Viresh Kumar, Nathan Zimmer; +Cc: Andy Shevchenko

Commit e1ee7c86 ("cpufreq: Convert the cpufreq_driver_lock to use RCU")
introduces an RCU storage for cpufreq_driver. On Intel Medfield board we are
getting a warning during kernel boot.

[    6.074511] ===============================
[    6.078634] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[    6.082930] 3.8.0-rc6-next-20130208-00036-g83eb4b6-dirty #1058 Not tainted
[    6.089748] -------------------------------
[    6.093926] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:1766 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[    6.101651]
[    6.101651] other info that might help us debug this:
[    6.101651]
[    6.109659]
[    6.109659] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[    6.116215] no locks held by swapper/0/1.
[    6.120167]
[    6.120167] stack backtrace:
[    6.124516] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc6-next-20130208-00036-g83eb4b6-dirty #1058
[    6.133470] Call Trace:
[    6.135917]  [<c1067669>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd4/0xdd
[    6.141390]  [<c181d642>] ? cpufreq_core_init+0x8e/0x8e
[    6.146604]  [<c1344879>] cpufreq_update_policy+0x71/0x1d7
[    6.152081]  [<c1069d2f>] ? __lock_acquire+0xca4/0xcd4
[    6.157210]  [<c1067ef0>] ? mark_lock+0x1f/0x209
[    6.161820]  [<c1068137>] ? mark_held_locks+0x5d/0x7d
[    6.166862]  [<c150c209>] ? __mutex_lock_common+0x2e0/0x344
[    6.172425]  [<c106825c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x105/0x195
[    6.178425]  [<c150c3ae>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xe6/0x100
[    6.184250]  [<c106825c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x105/0x195
[    6.190248]  [<c10682f7>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
[    6.195291]  [<c181d642>] ? cpufreq_core_init+0x8e/0x8e
[    6.200506]  [<c150c3d0>] ? mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
[    6.205114]  [<c181d642>] ? cpufreq_core_init+0x8e/0x8e
[    6.210331]  [<c181d68a>] cpufreq_stats_init+0x48/0xbd
[    6.215461]  [<c181d68a>] ? cpufreq_stats_init+0x48/0xbd
[    6.220763]  [<c181d642>] ? cpufreq_core_init+0x8e/0x8e
[    6.225981]  [<c1001085>] do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x10b
[    6.230938]  [<c17faa52>] ? kernel_init_freeable+0xf3/0x18e
[    6.236501]  [<c17faa68>] kernel_init_freeable+0x109/0x18e
[    6.241978]  [<c14fa2b4>] kernel_init+0x8/0xb4
[    6.246412]  [<c150e937>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x28
[    6.251889]  [<c14fa2ac>] ? rest_init+0x108/0x108

The patch moves dereferencing part after policy check.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 79511ab..7d84b205 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -1763,13 +1763,15 @@ int cpufreq_update_policy(unsigned int cpu)
 	struct cpufreq_policy *data = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
 	struct cpufreq_policy policy;
 	int ret;
-	struct cpufreq_driver *driver = rcu_dereference(cpufreq_driver);
+	struct cpufreq_driver *driver;
 
 	if (!data) {
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 		goto no_policy;
 	}
 
+	driver = rcu_dereference(cpufreq_driver);
+
 	if (unlikely(lock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu))) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto fail;
-- 
1.7.10.4


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