4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jules Maselbas jules.maselbas@arm.com
commit 1b5d43cfb69759d8ef8d30469cea31d0c037aed5 upstream.
This patch prevents the 'global_tunables_lock' mutex from being unlocked before being locked. This mutex is not locked if the sugov_kthread_create() function fails.
Signed-off-by: Jules Maselbas jules.maselbas@arm.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Chris Redpath chris.redpath@arm.com Cc: Dietmar Eggermann dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Mike Galbraith efault@gmx.de Cc: Patrick Bellasi patrick.bellasi@arm.com Cc: Stephen Kyle stephen.kyle@arm.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: nd@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180329144301.38419-1-jules.maselbas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c @@ -605,10 +605,9 @@ fail:
stop_kthread: sugov_kthread_stop(sg_policy); - -free_sg_policy: mutex_unlock(&global_tunables_lock);
+free_sg_policy: sugov_policy_free(sg_policy);
disable_fast_switch: