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intel_idle: Avoid a double free of the per-CPU data.
authorRichard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de>
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 21:00:53 +0000 (17:00 -0400)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 7 Apr 2016 20:10:57 +0000 (22:10 +0200)
The helper function, intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit, frees the
globally allocated per-CPU data.  However, this function is invoked
from the hot plug notifier callback at a time when freeing that data
is not safe.

If the call to cpuidle_register_driver() should fail (say, due to lack
of memory), then the driver will free its per-CPU region.  On the
*next* CPU_ONLINE event, the driver will happily use the region again
and even free it again if the failure repeats.

This patch fixes the issue by moving the call to free_percpu() outside
of the helper function at the two call sites that actually need to
free the per-CPU data.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/idle/intel_idle.c

index 5dd741ff4de328b501d7f986ff81dcbdc37914a7..0b568728867ea3c18bd5b588c48cc408f9412cf2 100644 (file)
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ static int __init intel_idle_probe(void)
 
 /*
  * intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit()
- * unregister, free cpuidle_devices
+ * Unregisters the cpuidle devices.
  */
 static void intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit(void)
 {
@@ -1013,9 +1013,6 @@ static void intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit(void)
                dev = per_cpu_ptr(intel_idle_cpuidle_devices, i);
                cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
        }
-
-       free_percpu(intel_idle_cpuidle_devices);
-       return;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1231,6 +1228,7 @@ static int __init intel_idle_init(void)
                if (retval) {
                        cpu_notifier_register_done();
                        cpuidle_unregister_driver(&intel_idle_driver);
+                       free_percpu(intel_idle_cpuidle_devices);
                        return retval;
                }
        }
@@ -1253,6 +1251,7 @@ static void __exit intel_idle_exit(void)
        cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
        cpuidle_unregister_driver(&intel_idle_driver);
+       free_percpu(intel_idle_cpuidle_devices);
 }
 
 module_init(intel_idle_init);