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>
/*
* intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit()
- * unregister, free cpuidle_devices
+ * Unregisters the cpuidle devices.
*/
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;
}
/*
if (retval) {
cpu_notifier_register_done();
cpuidle_unregister_driver(&intel_idle_driver);
+ free_percpu(intel_idle_cpuidle_devices);
return retval;
}
}
cpu_notifier_register_done();
cpuidle_unregister_driver(&intel_idle_driver);
+ free_percpu(intel_idle_cpuidle_devices);
}
module_init(intel_idle_init);