4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
commit 97739501f207efe33145b918817f305b822987f8 upstream.
If the next_freq field of struct sugov_policy is set to UINT_MAX, it shouldn't be used for updating the CPU frequency (this is a special "invalid" value), but after commit b7eaf1aab9f8 (cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely) it may be passed as the new frequency to sugov_update_commit() in sugov_update_single().
Fix that by adding an extra check for the special UINT_MAX value of next_freq to sugov_update_single().
Fixes: b7eaf1aab9f8 (cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely) Reported-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org Cc: 4.12+ stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c @@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ static void sugov_update_single(struct u * Do not reduce the frequency if the CPU has not been idle * recently, as the reduction is likely to be premature then. */ - if (busy && next_f < sg_policy->next_freq) { + if (busy && next_f < sg_policy->next_freq && + sg_policy->next_freq != UINT_MAX) { next_f = sg_policy->next_freq;
/* Reset cached freq as next_freq has changed */