Re: [PATCH] tools, cpupower, fix return checks for sysfs_get_idlestate_count()

[Thomas Renninger]

On Monday, December 01, 2014 09:39:22 AM Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Red Hat and Fedora use a bug reporting tool that gathers data about
> "broken" systems called sosreport.  Among other things, it includes the
> output of 'cpupower idle-info'.  Executing 'cpupower idle-info' on a
> system that has cpuidle disabled via 'cpuidle.off=1' results in a 300
> second hang in the cpupower application.
> 
> ie)
> [root@intel-brickland-05]# cpupower idle-info
> Could not determine cpuidle driver
> 
> Analyzing CPU 0:
> Number of idle states: -19
> [hang]
> 
> The problem is that the cpupower code only checks for a zero return from
> sysfs_get_idlestate_count().  The function can return -ENODEV (-19) as
> above.  This patch fixes callers to sysfs_get_idlestate_count() to check
> the right return values.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>

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