linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] cpuidle: Validate cpu_dev in cpuidle_add

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Message-Id: <20170323152247.14733-3-svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:52:47 +0530
From:   Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] cpuidle: Validate cpu_dev in cpuidle_add_sysfs

If a given cpu is not in cpu_present and cpu hotplug
is disabled, arch can skip setting up the cpu_dev.

Arch cpuidle driver should pass correct cpu mask
for registration, but failing to do so by the driver
causes error to propagate and crash like this:

[   30.076045] Unable to handle kernel paging request for
				data at address 0x00000048
[   30.076100] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000007b2f30
cpu 0x4d: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000003feb18b670]
    pc: c0000000007b2f30: kobject_get+0x20/0x70
    lr: c0000000007b3c94: kobject_add_internal+0x54/0x3f0
    sp: c000003feb18b8f0
   msr: 9000000000009033
   dar: 48
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc000003fd2ed8300
  paca    = 0xc00000000fbab500   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 1, comm = swapper/0
Linux version 4.11.0-rc2-svaidy+ (sv@...arika) (gcc version 6.2.0
20161005 (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12) ) #10 SMP Sun Mar 19 00:08:09 IST 2017
enter ? for help
[c000003feb18b960] c0000000007b3c94 kobject_add_internal+0x54/0x3f0
[c000003feb18b9f0] c0000000007b43a4 kobject_init_and_add+0x64/0xa0
[c000003feb18ba70] c000000000e284f4 cpuidle_add_sysfs+0xb4/0x130
[c000003feb18baf0] c000000000e26038 cpuidle_register_device+0x118/0x1c0
[c000003feb18bb30] c000000000e26c48 cpuidle_register+0x78/0x120
[c000003feb18bbc0] c00000000168fd9c powernv_processor_idle_init+0x110/0x1c4
[c000003feb18bc40] c00000000000cff8 do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0
[c000003feb18bd00] c0000000016242f4 kernel_init_freeable+0x280/0x360
[c000003feb18bdc0] c00000000000d864 kernel_init+0x24/0x160
[c000003feb18be30] c00000000000b4e8 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74

Validating cpu_dev fixes the crash and reports correct error message like:

[   30.163506] Failed to register cpuidle device for cpu136
[   30.173329] Registration of powernv driver failed.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
index c5adc8c..f2c3bce 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
@@ -615,6 +615,18 @@ int cpuidle_add_sysfs(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device((unsigned long)dev->cpu);
 	int error;
 
+	/*
+	 * Return error if cpu_device is not setup for this cpu.  This
+	 * could happen if arch did not setup cpu_device since this
+	 * cpu is not in cpu_present mask and the driver did not send
+	 * correct cpu mask at registration.  Without this check we
+	 * would end up passing bogus value for &cpu_dev->kobj in
+	 * kobject_init_and_add().
+	 */
+
+	if (!cpu_dev)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	kdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*kdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.9.3