FAILED: patch "[PATCH] cpufreq: Fix creation of symbolic links to policy directories" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] cpufreq: Fix creation of symbolic links to policy directories" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-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 2f0ba790df51721794c11abc7a076d407392f648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:33:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Fix creation of symbolic links to policy directories

The cpufreq core only tries to create symbolic links from CPU
directories in sysfs to policy directories in cpufreq_add_dev(),
either when a given CPU is registered or when the cpufreq driver
is registered, whichever happens first.  That is not sufficient,
however, because cpufreq_add_dev() may be called for an offline CPU
whose policy object has not been created yet and, quite obviously,
the symbolic cannot be added in that case.

Fix that by making cpufreq_online() attempt to add symbolic links to
policy objects for the CPUs in the related_cpus mask of every new
policy object created by it.

The cpufreq_driver_lock locking around the for_each_cpu() loop
in cpufreq_online() is dropped, because it is not necessary and the
code is somewhat simpler without it.  Moreover, failures to create
a symbolic link will not be regarded as hard errors any more and
the CPUs without those links will not be taken offline automatically,
but that should not be problematic in practice.

Reported-and-tested-by: Prashanth Prakash <pprakash@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: 4.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 5dbdd261aa73..bc96d423781a 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -918,11 +918,19 @@ static struct kobj_type ktype_cpufreq = {
 	.release	= cpufreq_sysfs_release,
 };
 
-static int add_cpu_dev_symlink(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
-			       struct device *dev)
+static void add_cpu_dev_symlink(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int cpu)
 {
+	struct device *dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
+
+	if (!dev)
+		return;
+
+	if (cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cpu, policy->real_cpus))
+		return;
+
 	dev_dbg(dev, "%s: Adding symlink\n", __func__);
-	return sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &policy->kobj, "cpufreq");
+	if (sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &policy->kobj, "cpufreq"))
+		dev_err(dev, "cpufreq symlink creation failed\n");
 }
 
 static void remove_cpu_dev_symlink(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
@@ -1180,10 +1188,10 @@ static int cpufreq_online(unsigned int cpu)
 		policy->user_policy.min = policy->min;
 		policy->user_policy.max = policy->max;
 
-		write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
-		for_each_cpu(j, policy->related_cpus)
+		for_each_cpu(j, policy->related_cpus) {
 			per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = policy;
-		write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
+			add_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, j);
+		}
 	} else {
 		policy->min = policy->user_policy.min;
 		policy->max = policy->user_policy.max;
@@ -1275,13 +1283,15 @@ static int cpufreq_online(unsigned int cpu)
 
 	if (cpufreq_driver->exit)
 		cpufreq_driver->exit(policy);
+
+	for_each_cpu(j, policy->real_cpus)
+		remove_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, get_cpu_device(j));
+
 out_free_policy:
 	cpufreq_policy_free(policy);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int cpufreq_offline(unsigned int cpu);
-
 /**
  * cpufreq_add_dev - the cpufreq interface for a CPU device.
  * @dev: CPU device.
@@ -1303,16 +1313,10 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, struct subsys_interface *sif)
 
 	/* Create sysfs link on CPU registration */
 	policy = per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, cpu);
-	if (!policy || cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cpu, policy->real_cpus))
-		return 0;
+	if (policy)
+		add_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, cpu);
 
-	ret = add_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, dev);
-	if (ret) {
-		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, policy->real_cpus);
-		cpufreq_offline(cpu);
-	}
-
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int cpufreq_offline(unsigned int cpu)