Re: [PATCH V7 1/6] cpufreq: Don't allow updating inactive policies from sysfs

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 09-06-15, 01:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> I'm not sure if -EPERM is the best error code for this case.  It doesn't depend
> on the actual permissions, but rather on the policy status that may change
> going forward.
> 
> It might be better to use -EBUSY even.

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:22:23 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Don't allow updating inactive policies from sysfs

Later commits would change the way policies are managed today. Policies
wouldn't be freed on cpu hotplug (currently they aren't freed only for
suspend), and while the CPU is offline, the sysfs cpufreq files would
still be present.

User may accidentally try to update the sysfs files in following
directory: '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/'. And that would
result in undefined behavior as policy wouldn't be active then.

Apart from updating the store() routine, we also update __cpufreq_get()
which can call cpufreq_out_of_sync(). The later routine tries to update
policy->cur and starts notifying kernel about it.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 5d780ff5a10a..16214dfe78c5 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -875,11 +875,18 @@ static ssize_t store(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
 
 	down_write(&policy->rwsem);
 
+	/* Updating inactive policies is invalid, so avoid doing that. */
+	if (unlikely(policy_is_inactive(policy))) {
+		ret = -EBUSY;
+		goto unlock_policy_rwsem;
+	}
+
 	if (fattr->store)
 		ret = fattr->store(policy, buf, count);
 	else
 		ret = -EIO;
 
+unlock_policy_rwsem:
 	up_write(&policy->rwsem);
 
 	up_read(&cpufreq_rwsem);
@@ -1610,6 +1617,10 @@ static unsigned int __cpufreq_get(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 
 	ret_freq = cpufreq_driver->get(policy->cpu);
 
+	/* Updating inactive policies is invalid, so avoid doing that. */
+	if (unlikely(policy_is_inactive(policy)))
+		return ret_freq;
+
 	if (ret_freq && policy->cur &&
 		!(cpufreq_driver->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {
 		/* verify no discrepancy between actual and


-- 
viresh