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    • Ethan Zhao's avatar
      cpufreq: fix a NULL pointer dereference in __cpufreq_governor() · cb57720b
      Ethan Zhao authored
      
      
      If ACPI _PPC changed notification happens before governor was initiated
      while kernel is booting, a NULL pointer dereference will be triggered:
      
      BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030
       IP: [<ffffffff81470453>] __cpufreq_governor+0x23/0x1e0
       PGD 0
       Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
       ... ...
       RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81470453>]  [<ffffffff81470453>]
       __cpufreq_governor+0x23/0x1e0
       RSP: 0018:ffff881fcfbcfbb8  EFLAGS: 00010286
       RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff881fd11b3980 RCX: ffff88407fc20000
       RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff881fd11b3980
       RBP: ffff881fcfbcfbd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000000f
       R10: ffffffff818068d0 R11: 0000000000000043 R12: 0000000000000004
       R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8196cae0 R15: 0000000000000000
       FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff881fffc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
       CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
       CR2: 0000000000000030 CR3: 00000000018ae000 CR4: 00000000000407f0
       DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
       DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
       Process kworker/0:3 (pid: 750, threadinfo ffff881fcfbce000, task
       ffff881fcf556400)
       Stack:
        ffff881fffc17d00 ffff881fcfbcfc18 ffff881fd11b3980 0000000000000000
        ffff881fcfbcfc08 ffffffff81470d08 ffff881fd11b3980 0000000000000007
        ffff881fcfbcfc18 ffff881fffc17d00 ffff881fcfbcfd28 ffffffff81472e9a
       Call Trace:
        [<ffffffff81470d08>] __cpufreq_set_policy+0x1b8/0x2e0
        [<ffffffff81472e9a>] cpufreq_update_policy+0xca/0x150
        [<ffffffff81472f20>] ? cpufreq_update_policy+0x150/0x150
        [<ffffffff81324a96>] acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed+0x71/0x7b
        [<ffffffff81320bcd>] acpi_processor_notify+0x55/0x115
        [<ffffffff812f9c29>] acpi_device_notify+0x19/0x1b
        [<ffffffff813084ca>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x41/0x5f
        [<ffffffff812f64a4>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x27/0x34
      
      The root cause is a race conditon -- cpufreq core and acpi-cpufreq driver
      were initiated, but cpufreq_governor wasn't and _PPC changed notification
      happened, __cpufreq_governor() was called within acpi_os_execute_deferred
      kernel thread context.
      
      To fix this panic issue, add pointer checking code in __cpufreq_governor()
      before pointer policy->governor is to be dereferenced.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEthan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      cb57720b
    • Dave Jones's avatar
      Update/Remove soon-to-be-dead email address · d5e80b4b
      Dave Jones authored
      
      
      I'm leaving Red Hat at the end of December 2014, so remove all
      references to my soon-to-be-dead address.
      
      (There are some references left in the tree, that need additional
      changes, I'll send those through the AGP maintainers).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d5e80b4b
  4. Dec 18, 2014
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