linux-kernel - [PATCH v5] PM / devfreq: Restart previous governor if new governor fails to start

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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:36:30 +0530
From:   Sibi Sankar <sibis@...eaurora.org>
To:     myungjoo.ham@...sung.com, kyungmin.park@...sung.com
Cc:     cw00.choi@...sung.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm-owner@...r.kernel.org,
        Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>,
        Sibi Sankar <sibis@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5] PM / devfreq: Restart previous governor if new governor fails to start

From: Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>

If the new governor fails to start, switch back to old governor so that the
devfreq state is not left in some weird limbo.

[Mjungjoo: assume fatal on revert failure and set df->governor to NULL]
Signed-off-by: Sibi Sankar <sibis@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>
---
V5:
* assume fatal on revert failure and set df->governor to NULL

V4:
* Removed prev_governor check.

V3:
* Fix NULL deref for real this time.
* Addressed some style preferences.

V2:
* Fixed typo in commit text
* Fixed potential NULL deref

 drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
index 428a1de81008..37490235ec34 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ static ssize_t governor_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	struct devfreq *df = to_devfreq(dev);
 	int ret;
 	char str_governor[DEVFREQ_NAME_LEN + 1];
-	struct devfreq_governor *governor;
+	const struct devfreq_governor *governor, *prev_governor;
 
 	ret = sscanf(buf, "%" __stringify(DEVFREQ_NAME_LEN) "s", str_governor);
 	if (ret != 1)
@@ -1153,12 +1153,24 @@ static ssize_t governor_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 			goto out;
 		}
 	}
+	prev_governor = df->governor;
 	df->governor = governor;
 	strncpy(df->governor_name, governor->name, DEVFREQ_NAME_LEN);
 	ret = df->governor->event_handler(df, DEVFREQ_GOV_START, NULL);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
 		dev_warn(dev, "%s: Governor %s not started(%d)\n",
 			 __func__, df->governor->name, ret);
+		df->governor = prev_governor;
+		strncpy(df->governor_name, prev_governor->name,
+			DEVFREQ_NAME_LEN);
+		ret = df->governor->event_handler(df, DEVFREQ_GOV_START, NULL);
+		if (ret) {
+			dev_warn(dev,
+				 "%s: reverting to Governor %s failed (%d)\n",
+				 __func__, df->governor_name, ret);
+			df->governor = NULL;
+		}
+	}
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&devfreq_list_lock);
 
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