[PATCH] cpufreq: schedutil: Publish util hooks only after all sg_cpu are initialized

From: Zhongqiu Han

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 07:52:21 EST


Commit 16a03c71bba0 ("cpufreq: schedutil: Merge initialization code of
sg_cpu in single loop") merged the per-CPU initialization and the
utilization-hook registration into a single loop in sugov_start().

For a shared cpufreq policy this re-introduces the race originally fixed
by commit ab2f7cf141aa ("cpufreq: schedutil: Fix sugov_start() versus
sugov_update_shared() race").

The scheduler's util path reaches the hook under RCU-sched and never takes
policy->rwsem, so the rwsem held across sugov_start() cannot serialize the
two. Once the first CPU's hook is published, sugov_update_shared() may run
and, via sugov_next_freq_shared(), read/write each sibling sugov_cpu
(iowait_boost, util, bw_min, ...) concurrently with the memset() still
initializing them, with no lock common to both sides: the update side holds
sg_policy->update_lock while the init side holds only policy->rwsem, which
the scheduler's util path never takes.

The walk only accesses scalar members, never a pointer like ->sg_policy,
so it does not crash today; it merely uses stale (or zero on first start)
values that skew the frequency selection and tracepoints. It is still a
genuine data race, and a latent crash once any pointer member is
dereferenced there.

Restore the two-phase approach: initialize all per-CPU structures first,
and only then publish the per-CPU utilization update hooks.

Fixes: 16a03c71bba0 ("cpufreq: schedutil: Merge initialization code of sg_cpu in single loop")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zhongqiu Han <zhongqiu.han@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index dc0835ceee98..6ad080de8644 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -872,8 +872,19 @@ static int sugov_start(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
memset(sg_cpu, 0, sizeof(*sg_cpu));
sg_cpu->cpu = cpu;
sg_cpu->sg_policy = sg_policy;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Publish the hooks only after all per-CPU data is initialized, so a
+ * shared policy's sugov_update_shared() never reads an uninitialized
+ * sibling sugov_cpu.
+ */
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, policy->cpus) {
+ struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu = &per_cpu(sugov_cpu, cpu);
+
cpufreq_add_update_util_hook(cpu, &sg_cpu->update_util, uu);
}
+
return 0;
}

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