Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] kernel/cpu_pm: Fix uninitted local in cpu_pm

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Thu Apr 23 2020 - 22:43:56 EST


Quoting Douglas Anderson (2020-04-22 14:55:01)
> cpu_pm_notify() is basically a wrapper of notifier_call_chain().
> notifier_call_chain() doesn't initialize *nr_calls to 0 before it
> starts incrementing it--presumably it's up to the callers to do this.
>
> Unfortunately the callers of cpu_pm_notify() don't init *nr_calls.
> This potentially means you could get too many or two few calls to
> CPU_PM_ENTER_FAILED or CPU_CLUSTER_PM_ENTER_FAILED depending on the
> luck of the stack.
>
> Let's fix this.
>
> Fixes: ab10023e0088 ("cpu_pm: Add cpu power management notifiers")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>