[CPUFREQ] Fix use after free of struct powernow_k8_data

watologo1 · Dave Jones · commit 557a701c1655 · 2010-01-13T10:55:15.000-05:00
Easy fix for a regression introduced in 2.6.31. On managed CPUs the cpufreq.c core will call driver->exit(cpu) on the managed cpus and powernow_k8 will free the core's data. Later driver->get(cpu) function might get called trying to read out the current freq of a managed cpu and the NULL pointer check does not work on the freed object -> better set it to NULL. ->get() is unsigned and must return 0 as invalid frequency. Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14391 Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1356,6 +1356,7 @@ static int __devexit powernowk8_cpu_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)
 
 	kfree(data->powernow_table);
 	kfree(data);
+	per_cpu(powernow_data, pol->cpu) = NULL;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1375,7 +1376,7 @@ static unsigned int powernowk8_get(unsigned int cpu)
 	int err;
 
 	if (!data)
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return 0;
 
 	smp_call_function_single(cpu, query_values_on_cpu, &err, true);
 	if (err)
