[PATCH] cpufreq_sched: set governor_data before waking up kschedfreq

[Pingbo Wen]

Fix null pointer dereference error liked below. This BUG can be easily
re-produced by 'monkey --throttle 50' in android 6.0.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0010
[KERN Warning] check backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 10714 Comm: kschedfreq:0 Tainted:
Call trace:
[] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x15c
[] show_stack+0x10/0x1c
[] dump_stack+0x74/0xb8
[] debug_locks_off+0x4c/0x7c
[] oops_enter+0xc/0x28
[] die+0x2c/0x1a4
[] __do_kernel_fault.part.5+0x70/0x84
[] do_page_fault+0x344/0x348
[] do_translation_fault+0xbc/0xf0
[] do_mem_abort+0x38/0x9c
[] el1_da+0x14/0x80
[] kthread+0xd4/0xec

Signed-off-by: Pingbo Wen 
---
 kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
index e1d208e..93731ef 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ static int cpufreq_sched_policy_init(struct cpufreq_policy 
*policy)
pr_debug("%s: throttle threshold = %u [ns]\n",
  __func__, gd->throttle_nsec);
 
+   policy->governor_data = gd;
+
if (cpufreq_driver_is_slow()) {
cpufreq_driver_slow = true;
gd->task = kthread_create(cpufreq_sched_thread, policy,
@@ -281,7 +283,6 @@ static int cpufreq_sched_policy_init(struct cpufreq_policy 
*policy)
init_irq_work(&gd->irq_work, cpufreq_sched_irq_work);
}
 
-   policy->governor_data = gd;
set_sched_freq();
 
return 0;
-- 
1.9.1

Re: [Eas-dev] [PATCH] cpufreq_sched: set governor_data before waking up kschedfreq

[Juri Lelli]

Hi,

On 20/02/16 19:32, Pingbo Wen wrote:
> Fix null pointer dereference error liked below. This BUG can be easily
> re-produced by 'monkey --throttle 50' in android 6.0.
> 

I'm not sure which code base you are looking at here, but I think this
problem has already been noticed and fixed by Ricky. Thanks for sharing
your fix, though.

However, I'm afraid that eas-dev might be not open, so please don't
cross post in the future.

Best,

- Juri

Re: [Eas-dev] [PATCH] cpufreq_sched: set governor_data before waking up kschedfreq

[Pingbo Wen]

Hi, Juri

On Monday, February 22, 2016 06:53 PM, Juri Lelli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20/02/16 19:32, Pingbo Wen wrote:
>> Fix null pointer dereference error liked below. This BUG can be easily
>> re-produced by 'monkey --throttle 50' in android 6.0.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure which code base you are looking at here, but I think this
> problem has already been noticed and fixed by Ricky. Thanks for sharing
> your fix, though.

I pulled git://linux-arm.org/linux-power.git origin/energy_model_rfc_v5.2,
but didn't get any new commits about this bug. Where can I find the latest
branch?

Pingbo

Re: [Eas-dev] [PATCH] cpufreq_sched: set governor_data before waking up kschedfreq

[Juri Lelli]

On 22/02/16 19:32, Pingbo Wen wrote:
> Hi, Juri
> 
> On Monday, February 22, 2016 06:53 PM, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 20/02/16 19:32, Pingbo Wen wrote:
> >> Fix null pointer dereference error liked below. This BUG can be easily
> >> re-produced by 'monkey --throttle 50' in android 6.0.
> >>
> > 
> > I'm not sure which code base you are looking at here, but I think this
> > problem has already been noticed and fixed by Ricky. Thanks for sharing
> > your fix, though.
> 
> I pulled git://linux-arm.org/linux-power.git origin/energy_model_rfc_v5.2,
> but didn't get any new commits about this bug. Where can I find the latest
> branch?
> 

The fix is not yet present in any branch, but I think it has been
already discussed in Steve's last RFC. I guess it will be incorporated
in his next version.

Best,

- Juri