From: David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>
To: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com, lenb@kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org, zhangzihuan@kylinos.cn,
jhladky@redhat.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix NULL pointer dereference in update_cpu_qos_request()
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:21:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260224122106.228116-1-darcari@redhat.com> (raw)
The update_cpu_qos_request() function attempts to initialize the 'freq'
variable by dereferencing 'cpudata' before verifying if the 'policy'
is valid.
This issue occurs on systems booted with the "nosmt" parameter, where
all_cpu_data[cpu] is NULL for the SMT sibling threads. As a result,
any call to update_qos_requests() will result in a NULL pointer
dereference as the code will attempt to access pstate.turbo_freq using
the NULL cpudata pointer.
Fix this by deferring the 'freq' assignment until after the policy and
driver_data have been validated.
Fixes: ae1bdd23b99f ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Adjust frequency percentage computations")
Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAE4VaGDfiPvz3AzrwrwM4kWB3SCkMci25nPO8W1JmTBd=xHzZg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>
---
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
index a48af3540c74..bdc37080d319 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -1647,8 +1647,8 @@ static ssize_t store_no_turbo(struct kobject *a, struct kobj_attribute *b,
static void update_cpu_qos_request(int cpu, enum freq_qos_req_type type)
{
struct cpudata *cpudata = all_cpu_data[cpu];
- unsigned int freq = cpudata->pstate.turbo_freq;
struct freq_qos_request *req;
+ unsigned int freq;
struct cpufreq_policy *policy __free(put_cpufreq_policy) = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
if (!policy)
@@ -1661,6 +1661,8 @@ static void update_cpu_qos_request(int cpu, enum freq_qos_req_type type)
if (hwp_active)
intel_pstate_get_hwp_cap(cpudata);
+ freq = cpudata->pstate.turbo_freq;
+
if (type == FREQ_QOS_MIN) {
freq = DIV_ROUND_UP(freq * global.min_perf_pct, 100);
} else {
--
2.52.0
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