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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com,gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,stable@kernel.org,sudeep.holla@arm.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:21:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025102641-derail-shine-9dd5@gregkh> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 2eead19334516c8e9927c11b448fbe512b1f18a1
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025102641-derail-shine-9dd5@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 2eead19334516c8e9927c11b448fbe512b1f18a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:13:08 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in
 topology_parse_cpu_capacity()

Fix incorrect use of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()
which causes the code to proceed with NULL clock pointers. The current
logic uses !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) which evaluates to true for both
valid pointers and NULL, leading to potential NULL pointer dereference
in clk_get_rate().

Per include/linux/err.h documentation, PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(ptr) returns:
"The error code within @ptr if it is an error pointer; 0 otherwise."

This means PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() returns 0 for both valid pointers AND NULL
pointers. Therefore !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) evaluates to true (proceed)
when cpu_clk is either valid or NULL, causing clk_get_rate(NULL) to be
called when of_clk_get() returns NULL.

Replace with !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpu_clk) which only proceeds for valid
pointers, preventing potential NULL pointer dereference in clk_get_rate().

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Fixes: b8fe128dad8f ("arch_topology: Adjust initial CPU capacities with current freq")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923174308.1771906-1-kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
index 1037169abb45..e1eff05bea4a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
+++ b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ bool __init topology_parse_cpu_capacity(struct device_node *cpu_node, int cpu)
 		 * frequency (by keeping the initial capacity_freq_ref value).
 		 */
 		cpu_clk = of_clk_get(cpu_node, 0);
-		if (!PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk)) {
+		if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpu_clk)) {
 			per_cpu(capacity_freq_ref, cpu) =
 				clk_get_rate(cpu_clk) / HZ_PER_KHZ;
 			clk_put(cpu_clk);


             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-26 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-26 14:21 gregkh [this message]
2025-10-26 16:04 ` [PATCH 6.1.y] arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity() Sasha Levin

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