[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "cpufreq: fix a NULL pointer dereference in __cpufreq_governor()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cpufreq: fix a NULL pointer dereference in __cpufreq_governor()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From ef99b00ae4a805b3bec741dba3fd9981a096a1f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao at oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:28:19 +0900
Subject: cpufreq: fix a NULL pointer dereference in __cpufreq_governor()

commit cb57720bf79688d64854a0a43565aa52303c1f3f upstream.

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: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 8afa0a96f9dd..1e1b3a894a81 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -2017,6 +2017,12 @@ static int __cpufreq_governor(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 	/* Don't start any governor operations if we are entering suspend */
 	if (cpufreq_suspended)
 		return 0;
+	/*
+	 * Governor might not be initiated here if ACPI _PPC changed
+	 * notification happened, so check it.
+	 */
+	if (!policy->governor)
+		return -EINVAL;

 	if (policy->governor->max_transition_latency &&
 	    policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency >