Re: [PATCH] PM: QoS: Add check to make sure CPU freq is non-negative

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jul 12 2022 - 14:37:20 EST


On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 8:47 AM Shivnandan Kumar
<quic_kshivnan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> CPU frequency should never be non-negative.

Do you mean "always be non-negative"?

> If some client driver calls freq_qos_update_request with some
> value greater than INT_MAX, then it will set max CPU freq at
> fmax but it will add plist node with some negative priority.
> plist node has priority from INT_MIN (highest) to INT_MAX
> (lowest). Once priority is set as negative, another client
> will not be able to reduce max CPU frequency. Adding check
> to make sure CPU freq is non-negative will fix this problem.
> Signed-off-by: Shivnandan Kumar <quic_kshivnan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> kernel/power/qos.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/power/qos.c b/kernel/power/qos.c
> index ec7e1e85923e..41e96fe34bfd 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/qos.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/qos.c
> @@ -531,7 +531,8 @@ int freq_qos_add_request(struct freq_constraints *qos,
> {
> int ret;
>
> - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(qos) || !req)
> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(qos) || !req || value < FREQ_QOS_MIN_DEFAULT_VALUE
> + || value > FREQ_QOS_MAX_DEFAULT_VALUE)

Why do you check against the defaults?

> return -EINVAL;
>
> if (WARN(freq_qos_request_active(req),
> @@ -563,7 +564,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(freq_qos_add_request);
> */
> int freq_qos_update_request(struct freq_qos_request *req, s32 new_value)
> {
> - if (!req)
> + if (!req || new_value < FREQ_QOS_MIN_DEFAULT_VALUE ||
> + new_value > FREQ_QOS_MAX_DEFAULT_VALUE)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> if (WARN(!freq_qos_request_active(req),
> --

I agree that it should guard against adding negative values, but I
don't see why s32 can be greater than INT_MAX.

Also why don't you put the guard into freq_qos_apply() instead of
duplicating it in the callers of that function?