[PATCH 2/2] powercap: dtpm_devfreq: Guard em_pd_get() against NULL return in callbacks

From: Elazar Leibovich

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 16:51:21 EST


From: Sivan Zohar-Kotzer <sivany32@xxxxxxxxx>

em_pd_get() returns NULL when the device has no energy model
registered. All three dtpm callbacks dereference the perf domain
without checking it:

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. get_pd_power_uw() — reachable from sysfs via the power_uw read
path. Return 0 if the EM is absent.

3. update_pd_power_uw() — called via dtpm_update_power(). Return
-EINVAL if the EM is absent.

This mirrors the equivalent NULL checks in dtpm_cpu.c.

Note this only handles the case where the EM is already gone (or was
never registered) when the callback starts. A callback racing with
em_dev_unregister_perf_domain() can still observe a non-NULL perf
domain that is freed underneath it; closing that race requires
lifetime guarantees from the EM core and is addressed separately.

Fixes: e44655617317 ("powercap/drivers/dtpm: Add dtpm devfreq with energy model 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_devfreq.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/powercap/dtpm_devfreq.c b/drivers/powercap/dtpm_devfreq.c
index d1dff6ccab12..cf16e2756481 100644
--- a/drivers/powercap/dtpm_devfreq.c
+++ b/drivers/powercap/dtpm_devfreq.c
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ static int update_pd_power_uw(struct dtpm *dtpm)
struct em_perf_domain *pd = em_pd_get(dev);
struct em_perf_state *table;

+ if (!pd)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
rcu_read_lock();
table = em_perf_state_from_pd(pd);

@@ -60,6 +63,9 @@ static u64 set_pd_power_limit(struct dtpm *dtpm, u64 power_limit)
unsigned long freq;
int i;

+ if (!pd)
+ return dtpm->power_limit;
+
rcu_read_lock();
table = em_perf_state_from_pd(pd);
for (i = 0; i < pd->nr_perf_states; i++) {
@@ -102,6 +108,9 @@ static u64 get_pd_power_uw(struct dtpm *dtpm)
u64 power = 0;
int i;

+ if (!pd)
+ return 0;
+
mutex_lock(&devfreq->lock);
status = devfreq->last_status;
mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)