[PATCH] cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Avoid stack buffer for IRQ name

Thara Gopinath thara.gopinath at linaro.org
Wed Sep 1 12:22:55 PDT 2021



On 9/1/21 4:47 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Registering an IRQ requires the string buffer containing the name to
> remain allocated, as the name is not copied into another buffer.
> 
> So let's add a irq_name field to the data struct instead, which is
> guaranteed to have the appropriate lifetime.
> 
> Cc: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath at linaro.org>
> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at linaro.org>
> Cc: Andy Gross <agross at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-msm at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

Thanks for the fix.

Reviewed-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath at linaro.org>

-- 
Warm Regards
Thara (She/Her/Hers)

> ---
> I'm not following msm development closely, so apologies if this was
> already fixed, or if this is not based on the right tree.
> 
> This fixes a crash on my Yoga C630 when reading /proc/interrupts.
> 
>   drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c b/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c
> index 3cc27d9e2ed1..6613228fe68c 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct qcom_cpufreq_data {
>   	/* Lock to synchronize between de-init sequence and re-starting LMh polling/interrupts */
>   	spinlock_t throttle_lock;
>   	int throttle_irq;
> +	char irq_name[15];
>   	bool cancel_throttle;
>   };
>   
> @@ -371,7 +372,6 @@ static int qcom_cpufreq_hw_lmh_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, int index)
>   {
>   	struct qcom_cpufreq_data *data = policy->driver_data;
>   	struct platform_device *pdev = cpufreq_get_driver_data();
> -	char irq_name[15];
>   	int ret;
>   
>   	/*
> @@ -388,11 +388,11 @@ static int qcom_cpufreq_hw_lmh_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, int index)
>   	spin_lock_init(&data->throttle_lock);
>   	INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(&data->throttle_work, qcom_lmh_dcvs_poll);
>   
> -	snprintf(irq_name, sizeof(irq_name), "dcvsh-irq-%u", policy->cpu);
> +	snprintf(data->irq_name, sizeof(data->irq_name), "dcvsh-irq-%u", policy->cpu);
>   	ret = request_threaded_irq(data->throttle_irq, NULL, qcom_lmh_dcvs_handle_irq,
> -				   IRQF_ONESHOT, irq_name, data);
> +				   IRQF_ONESHOT, data->irq_name, data);
>   	if (ret) {
> -		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Error registering %s: %d\n", irq_name, ret);
> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Error registering %s: %d\n", data->irq_name, ret);
>   		return 0;
>   	}
>   
> 





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