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From: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq/powernv: Fix use-after-free
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 05:26:21PM +1100, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
> The cpufreq driver has a use-after-free that we can hit if:
> 
> a) There's an OCC message pending when the notifier is registered, and
> b) The cpufreq driver fails to register with the core.
> 
> When a) occurs the notifier schedules a workqueue item to handle the
> message. The backing work_struct is located on chips[].throttle and when b)
> happens we clean up by freeing the array. Once we get to the (now free)
> queued item and the kernel crashes.
> 
> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Fixes: c5e29ea ("cpufreq: powernv: Fix bugs in powernv_cpufreq_{init/exit}")
> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>

Thanks for this fix Oliver.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
> index 56f4bc0..1806b1d 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
> @@ -1080,6 +1080,12 @@ static int init_chip_info(void)
> 
>  static inline void clean_chip_info(void)
>  {
> +	int i;
> +
> +	/* flush any pending work items */
> +	if (chips)
> +		for (i = 0; i < nr_chips; i++)
> +			cancel_work_sync(&chips[i].throttle);
>  	kfree(chips);
>  }
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.5
>