Re: [PATCH v3] PM: EM: Fix potential division-by-zero error in em_compute_costs()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Apr 15 2025 - 13:18:07 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM Yaxiong Tian <iambestgod@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Yaxiong Tian <tianyaxiong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When the device is of a non-CPU type, table[i].performance won't be
> initialized in the previous em_init_performance(), resulting in division
> by zero when calculating costs in em_compute_costs().
>
> Since the 'cost' algorithm is only used for EAS energy efficiency
> calculations and is currently not utilized by other device drivers, we
> should add the _is_cpu_device(dev) check to prevent this division-by-zero
> issue.
>
> Fixes: <1b600da51073> ("PM: EM: Optimize em_cpu_energy() and remove division")

Please look at the Fixes: tags in the kernel git history. They don't
look like the one above.

> Signed-off-by: Yaxiong Tian <tianyaxiong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/power/energy_model.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/power/energy_model.c b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
> index d9b7e2b38c7a..fc972cc1fc12 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/energy_model.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static int em_compute_costs(struct device *dev, struct em_perf_state *table,
>
> /* Compute the cost of each performance state. */
> for (i = nr_states - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
> - unsigned long power_res, cost;
> + unsigned long power_res, cost = 0;
>
> if ((flags & EM_PERF_DOMAIN_ARTIFICIAL) && cb->get_cost) {
> ret = cb->get_cost(dev, table[i].frequency, &cost);
> @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static int em_compute_costs(struct device *dev, struct em_perf_state *table,
> cost, ret);
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> - } else {
> + } else if (_is_cpu_device(dev)) {

Can't you just check this upfront at the beginning of the function and
make it bail out if dev is not a CPU device?

> /* increase resolution of 'cost' precision */
> power_res = table[i].power * 10;
> cost = power_res / table[i].performance;
> --