Scheduled policy update work may end up racing with the freeing of the
policy and unregistering the driver.
One possible race is as below, where the cpufreq_driver is unregistered,
but the scheduled work gets executed at later stage when, cpufreq_driver
is NULL (i.e. after freeing the policy and driver).
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000001c
pgd = (ptrval)
[0000001c] *pgd=80000080204003, *pmd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 206 [#1] SMP THUMB2
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3-00006-g67f5a8081a4b #86
Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
Workqueue: events handle_update
PC is at cpufreq_set_policy+0x58/0x228
LR is at dev_pm_qos_read_value+0x77/0xac
Control: 70c5387d Table: 80203000 DAC: fffffffd
Process kworker/0:1 (pid: 34, stack limit = 0x(ptrval))
(cpufreq_set_policy) from (refresh_frequency_limits.part.24+0x37/0x48)
(refresh_frequency_limits.part.24) from (handle_update+0x2f/0x38)
(handle_update) from (process_one_work+0x16d/0x3cc)
(process_one_work) from (worker_thread+0xff/0x414)
(worker_thread) from (kthread+0xff/0x100)
(kthread) from (ret_from_fork+0x11/0x28)
Fixes: 67d874c3b2c6 ("cpufreq: Register notifiers with the PM QoS framework")
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
[ rjw: Cancel the work before dropping the QoS requests ]
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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