[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.3 119/203] PM / devfreq: Fix kernel oops on governor module load

Sasha Levin
2019-09-22T19:34:19Z

From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>

[ Upstream commit 7544fd7f384591038646d3cd9efb311ab4509e24 ]

A bit unexpectedly (but still documented), request_module may
return a positive value, in case of a modprobe error.
This is currently causing issues in the devfreq framework.

When a request_module exits with a positive value, we currently
return that via ERR_PTR. However, because the value is positive,
it's not a ERR_VALUE proper, and is therefore treated as a
valid struct devfreq_governor pointer, leading to a kernel oops.

Fix this by returning -EINVAL if request_module returns a positive
value.

Fixes: b53b0128052ff ("PM / devfreq: Fix static checker warning in try_then_request_governor")
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
index ab22bf8a12d69..a0e19802149fc 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ static struct devfreq_governor *try_then_request_governor(const char *name)
/* Restore previous state before return */
mutex_lock(&devfreq_list_lock);
if (err)
- return ERR_PTR(err);
+ return (err < 0) ? ERR_PTR(err) : ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

governor = find_devfreq_governor(name);
}
--
2.20.1