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* [PATCH V3] cpuidle: check dev before usage in cpuidle_use_deepest_state
@ 2017-05-04  9:00 Li, Fei
  2017-05-04 10:16 ` Daniel Lezcano
  2017-05-05 21:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Li, Fei @ 2017-05-04  9:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andy Shevchenko, Shi, FengX, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
  Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Koul, Vinod

In case of there is no cpuidle devices registered, dev will be null, and 
panic will be triggered like below;
In this patch, add checking of dev before usage, like that done in
cpuidle_idle_call.

Panic without fix:
[  184.961328] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
  (null)
[  184.961328] IP: cpuidle_use_deepest_state+0x30/0x60
...
[  184.961328]  play_idle+0x8d/0x210
[  184.961328]  ? __schedule+0x359/0x8e0
[  184.961328]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x50
[  184.961328]  ? kthread_queue_delayed_work+0x41/0x80
[  184.961328]  clamp_idle_injection_func+0x64/0x1e0

Fixes: bb8313b603eb8 ("cpuidle: Allow enforcing deepest idle state selection")
Signed-off-by: Li, Fei <fei.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Shi, Feng <fengx.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Koul, Vinod <vinod.koul@intel.com>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 3 ++- 
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 548b90b..2706be7 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ void cpuidle_use_deepest_state(bool enable)
 
    preempt_disable();
    dev = cpuidle_get_device();
-   dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
+   if (dev)
+       dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
    preempt_enable();
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1

Best Regards,
Fei

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