FAILED: patch "[PATCH] cpufreq: Reference count policy in cpufreq_update_limits()" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-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>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 9e4e249018d208678888bdf22f6b652728106528
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025041715-wrangle-trillion-713e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 9e4e249018d208678888bdf22f6b652728106528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:39:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Reference count policy in cpufreq_update_limits()
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Since acpi_processor_notify() can be called before registering a cpufreq
driver or even in cases when a cpufreq driver is not registered at all,
cpufreq_update_limits() needs to check if a cpufreq driver is present
and prevent it from being unregistered.

For this purpose, make it call cpufreq_cpu_get() to obtain a cpufreq
policy pointer for the given CPU and reference count the corresponding
policy object, if present.

Fixes: 5a25e3f7cc53 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Driver-specific handling of _PPC updates")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/Z-ShAR59cTow0KcR@mail-itl
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1928789.tdWV9SEqCh@rjwysocki.net

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 0cf5a320bb5e..3841c9da6cac 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -2809,6 +2809,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpufreq_update_policy);
  */
 void cpufreq_update_limits(unsigned int cpu)
 {
+	struct cpufreq_policy *policy __free(put_cpufreq_policy);
+
+	policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
+	if (!policy)
+		return;
+
 	if (cpufreq_driver->update_limits)
 		cpufreq_driver->update_limits(cpu);
 	else