ACPI: sanity check _PSS frequency to prevent cpufreq crash
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 26 May 2009 19:11:06 +0000 (15:11 -0400)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Sat, 30 May 2009 00:45:58 +0000 (20:45 -0400)
When BIOS SETUP is changed to disable EIST, some BIOS
hand the OS an un-initialized _PSS:

        Name (_PSS, Package (0x06)
        {
            Package (0x06)
            {
                0x80000000, // frequency [MHz]
                0x80000000, // power [mW]
                0x80000000, // latency [us]
                0x80000000, // BM latency [us]
                0x80000000, // control
                0x80000000 // status
            },
    ...

These are outrageous values for frequency,
power and latency, raising the question where to draw
the line between legal and illegal.  We tend to survive
garbage in the power and latency fields, but we can BUG_ON
when garbage is in the frequency field.

Cpufreq multiplies the frequency by 1000 and stores it in a u32 KHz.
So disregard a _PSS with a frequency so large
that it can't be represented by cpufreq.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500311

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c

index cafb41000f6bd6b36eaaa4b4348faef59e5c0e49..60e543d3234ea8528b2e55537511690ee3be0d96 100644 (file)
@@ -309,9 +309,15 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_performance_states(struct acpi_processor *pr)
                                  (u32) px->bus_master_latency,
                                  (u32) px->control, (u32) px->status));
 
-               if (!px->core_frequency) {
-                       printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX
-                                   "Invalid _PSS data: freq is zero\n");
+               /*
+                * Check that ACPI's u64 MHz will be valid as u32 KHz in cpufreq
+                */
+               if (!px->core_frequency ||
+                   ((u32)(px->core_frequency * 1000) !=
+                    (px->core_frequency * 1000))) {
+                       printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG PREFIX
+                              "Invalid BIOS _PSS frequency: 0x%llx MHz\n",
+                              px->core_frequency);
                        result = -EFAULT;
                        kfree(pr->performance->states);
                        goto end;