Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:24:04 +0530 | From | Viresh Kumar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][next] cpufreq: powernow-k8: add null check to policy to avoid null pointer dereference |
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On 04-01-21, 13:02, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > Currently there is an unlikely case where cpufreq_cpu_get returns a > null policy and this will cause a null pointer dereference later on. > Fix this by adding a null check and adding an error return. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") > Fixes: b43a7ffbf33b ("cpufreq: Notify all policy->cpus in cpufreq_notify_transition()") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > --- > drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c > index 0acc9e241cd7..c5368545ba1f 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c > @@ -913,6 +913,8 @@ static int transition_frequency_fidvid(struct powernow_k8_data *data,
The caller already has a pointer to the policy, you should rather pass that here instead of doing cpufreq_cpu_get/put.
> freqs.new = find_khz_freq_from_fid(fid); > > policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(smp_processor_id()); > + if (!policy) > + return 1; > cpufreq_cpu_put(policy); > > cpufreq_freq_transition_begin(policy, &freqs); > -- > 2.29.2
-- viresh
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