[PATCH 1/2] cpufreq/powernv: Fix use-after-free

[Oliver O'Halloran]

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 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: c5e29ea ("cpufreq: powernv: Fix bugs in powernv_cpufreq_{init/exit}")
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.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);
 }
 
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2.9.5