linux-kernel - [PATCH] cpufreq: Ref the policy object sooner

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:21:31 +0100
From:	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
To:	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>,
	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Ref the policy object sooner

Do it before it's assigned to cpufreq_cpu_data, otherwise we can get
this warning when a driver tries to get the cpu frequency during
initialization:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 64 at include/linux/kref.h:47 kobject_get+0x64/0x70()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 64 Comm: irq/77-tegra-ac Not tainted 3.18.0-rc4-next-20141114ccu-00050-g3eff942 #326
[<c0016fac>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c001272c>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c001272c>] (show_stack) from [<c06085d8>] (dump_stack+0x98/0xd8)
[<c06085d8>] (dump_stack) from [<c002892c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x84/0xb4)
[<c002892c>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c00289f8>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24)
[<c00289f8>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c0220290>] (kobject_get+0x64/0x70)
[<c0220290>] (kobject_get) from [<c03e944c>] (cpufreq_cpu_get+0x88/0xc8)
[<c03e944c>] (cpufreq_cpu_get) from [<c03e9500>] (cpufreq_get+0xc/0x64)
[<c03e9500>] (cpufreq_get) from [<c0285288>] (actmon_thread_isr+0x134/0x198)
[<c0285288>] (actmon_thread_isr) from [<c0069008>] (irq_thread_fn+0x1c/0x40)
[<c0069008>] (irq_thread_fn) from [<c0069324>] (irq_thread+0x134/0x174)
[<c0069324>] (irq_thread) from [<c0040290>] (kthread+0xdc/0xf4)
[<c0040290>] (kthread) from [<c000f4b8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
---[ end trace b7bd64a81b340c59 ]---

Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 4473eba..954cb2f 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -898,12 +898,6 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev_interface(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 	struct freq_attr **drv_attr;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	/* prepare interface data */
-	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&policy->kobj, &ktype_cpufreq,
-				   &dev->kobj, "cpufreq");
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
 	/* set up files for this cpu device */
 	drv_attr = cpufreq_driver->attr;
 	while ((drv_attr) && (*drv_attr)) {
@@ -1211,6 +1205,15 @@ static int __cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, struct subsys_interface *sif)
 	}
 
 	down_write(&policy->rwsem);
+
+	/* prepare interface data */
+	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&policy->kobj, &ktype_cpufreq,
+				   &dev->kobj, "cpufreq");
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_err("%s: failed to init policy->kobj: %d\n", __func__, ret);
+		goto err_init_policy_kobj;
+	}
+
 	write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
 	for_each_cpu(j, policy->cpus)
 		per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = policy;
@@ -1301,6 +1304,7 @@ err_get_freq:
 		per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = NULL;
 	write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
 
+err_init_policy_kobj:
 	up_write(&policy->rwsem);
 
 	if (cpufreq_driver->exit)
-- 
1.9.3

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