Re: [PATCH v3] opp: Use clk_get_optional() to avoid leaving opp_table->clk as an error pointer
From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 01:15:01 EST
On 27-07-26, 09:46, Praveen Talari wrote:
> _update_opp_table_clk() uses clk_get(dev, NULL) to acquire the
> device's clock. On platforms where the perf domain device has no
> Linux clock and is instead managed entirely by firmware via
> devm_pm_opp_of_add_table() (through
> of_genpd_add_provider_simple()/onecell()), clk_get() returns
> -ENOENT. That case is treated as valid (the OPP table can still
> have entries sourced from firmware), but opp_table->clk is left
> holding ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) rather than being reset to NULL:
>
> opp_table->clk = clk_get(dev, NULL);
> ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(opp_table->clk);
> ...
> if (ret == -ENOENT) {
> opp_table->clk_count = 1;
> return opp_table; /* opp_table->clk is still ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) */
> }
>
> Consumers that only check IS_ERR(opp_table->clk) treat this as a
> valid clk and pass it straight into the clk consumer API. In
> particular, dev_pm_opp_set_rate() calls
> clk_round_rate(opp_table->clk, target_freq), and clk_round_rate()
> only guards against a NULL clk, so it dereferences the error pointer
> to read clk->exclusive_count and crashes:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> address 000000000000002e
> ...
> pc : clk_round_rate+0x3c/0x188
> ...
> Call trace:
> clk_round_rate+0x3c/0x188 (P)
> dev_pm_opp_set_rate+0x114/0x33c
>
> Rather than teaching every clk consumer API to special-case
> ERR_PTR(-ENOENT), fix it at the source: use clk_get_optional()
> instead of clk_get() in _update_opp_table_clk(), which already
> translates -ENOENT into a NULL clk. This documents that the clock is
> genuinely optional for such devices, and keeps opp_table->clk holding
> either a valid clk or NULL, never a lingering -ENOENT error pointer.
> _opp_config_clk_single() is only wired up via opp_table->config_clks
> when a clk was actually found, and every other opp_table->clk
> consumer already tolerates NULL through the standard clk API (which
> treats a NULL clk as a no-op), so no other call site needs to change.
>
> Suggested-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Praveen Talari <praveen.talari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
I am getting this with git am -3, please rebase over [1].
Applying: opp: Use clk_get_optional() to avoid leaving opp_table->clk as an error pointer
error: unrecognized input
error: could not build fake ancestor
> diff --git a/drivers/opp/core.c b/drivers/opp/core.c
> + opp_table->clk = clk_get_optional(dev, NULL);
>
> ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(opp_table->clk);
> - if (!ret) {
> - opp_table->config_clks = _opp_config_clk_single;
> - opp_table->clk_count = 1;
> - return opp_table;
> + if (ret) {
Since `ret` isn't used later anymore, you can instead do this and drop
`ret` ?
if (IS_ERR(opp_table->clk))
> + dev_pm_opp_put_opp_table(opp_table);
> + dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Couldn't find clock\n");
> + return ERR_PTR(ret);
> }
--
viresh
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm.git/log/?h=cpufreq/arm/linux-next