From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: thermal: cpu_cooling: Use cpufreq_dev->freq_table for finding level/freq
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:02:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150610150211.GA30208@mwanda> (raw)
Hello Viresh Kumar,
The patch 4843c4a19049: "thermal: cpu_cooling: Use
cpufreq_dev->freq_table for finding level/freq" from Dec 4, 2014,
leads to the following static checker warning:
drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c:163 get_level()
warn: potential off by one 'cpufreq_dev->freq_table[]' limit 'cpufreq_dev->max_level'
drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
157 static unsigned long get_level(struct cpufreq_cooling_device *cpufreq_dev,
158 unsigned int freq)
159 {
160 unsigned long level;
161
162 for (level = 0; level <= cpufreq_dev->max_level; level++) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
163 if (freq == cpufreq_dev->freq_table[level])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Reading beyond the end of the array.
164 return level;
165
166 if (freq > cpufreq_dev->freq_table[level])
167 break;
168 }
169
170 return THERMAL_CSTATE_INVALID;
171 }
The truth is that I have lots of checks that I can't publish, like for
example, if you use something with the word "size" or "max" as an index.
Obviously, it looks like <= should probably be < but just because it
looks wrong doesn't mean it is wrong. I searched for ->max_level and
read the documentation:
* @max_level: maximum cooling level. One less than total number of valid
* cpufreq frequencies.
The documentation is very clear that this loop is correct. It also
turns out that it used consistently almost throughout. But when I see
these unusual limits, I know it is often difficult to be 100%
consistent so I kept looking. It turns out there is off by one mistake
when we allocate the buffer.
cpufreq_dev->freq_table = kmalloc(sizeof(*cpufreq_dev->freq_table) *
cpufreq_dev->max_level, GFP_KERNEL);
It should be allocating:
sizeof(*cpufreq_dev->freq_table) * (cpufreq_dev->max_level + 1)
We could just change the allocation, but really this kind of unusual
limit is just going to cause more headaches in the future...
regards,
dan carpenter
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2015-06-10 15:02 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-06-11 3:05 ` thermal: cpu_cooling: Use cpufreq_dev->freq_table for finding level/freq Viresh Kumar
2015-06-11 7:14 ` Dan Carpenter
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