patch "thermal: cpu_cooling: Avoid accessing potentially freed structures" added to thermal-soc tree

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thermal: cpu_cooling: Avoid accessing potentially freed structures

to my thermal-soc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal.git
in the linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

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All the best,

Eduardo Valentin

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From: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:57:08 +0530
Subject: thermal: cpu_cooling: Avoid accessing potentially freed structures

After the lock is dropped, it is possible that the cpufreq_dev gets freed before we call get_level() and that can cause kernel to crash.

Drop the lock after we are done using the structure.

---
 drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index 69d0f43..be29489 100644
@@ -153,8 +153,10 @@ unsigned long cpufreq_cooling_get_level(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int freq)
 	mutex_lock(&cooling_list_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(cpufreq_dev, &cpufreq_dev_list, node) {
 		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &cpufreq_dev->allowed_cpus)) {
+			unsigned long level = get_level(cpufreq_dev, freq);
+
 			mutex_unlock(&cooling_list_lock);
-			return get_level(cpufreq_dev, freq);
+			return level;
 		}
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&cooling_list_lock);

2.1.4