[PATCH 1/2] powercap: dtpm_cpu: Guard em_cpu_get() against NULL return in sysfs callbacks

From: Elazar Leibovich

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 16:47:40 EST


From: Sivan Zohar-Kotzer <sivany32@xxxxxxxxx>

em_cpu_get() can return NULL when the CPU has no energy model registered
(e.g. during hotplug races or initialization failures). Two call sites
miss the NULL test:

1. set_pd_power_limit() — reachable from sysfs via the powercap
constraint power_limit_uw store path. If NULL, return the current
power limit unchanged (no-op) instead of crashing.

2. update_pd_power_uw() — called from CPU hotplug handlers via
dtpm_update_power(). Return -EINVAL if the EM is absent, since this
is an internal consistency failure that should not be swallowed.

The other sysfs-reachable path, get_pd_power_uw(), already has a NULL
guard returning 0.

Fixes: 0e8f68d7f048 ("powercap/drivers/dtpm: Add CPU energy model based support")
Signed-off-by: Sivan Zohar-Kotzer <sivany32@xxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Elazar Leibovich <elazarl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Elazar Leibovich <elazarl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/powercap/dtpm_cpu.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/powercap/dtpm_cpu.c b/drivers/powercap/dtpm_cpu.c
index 99390ec1481f..0a460f97bf15 100644
--- a/drivers/powercap/dtpm_cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/powercap/dtpm_cpu.c
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ static u64 set_pd_power_limit(struct dtpm *dtpm, u64 power_limit)
u64 power;
int i, nr_cpus;

+ if (!pd)
+ return dtpm->power_limit;
+
nr_cpus = cpumask_weight_and(cpu_online_mask, to_cpumask(pd->cpus));

rcu_read_lock();
@@ -125,6 +128,9 @@ static int update_pd_power_uw(struct dtpm *dtpm)
struct em_perf_state *table;
int nr_cpus;

+ if (!em)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
nr_cpus = cpumask_weight_and(cpu_online_mask, to_cpumask(em->cpus));

rcu_read_lock();
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)