On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:44:24PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Few drivers are using kmalloc() to allocate memory for frequency tables and 
> once
> we have an additional field '.flags' in 'struct cpufreq_frequency_table', 
> these
> might become unstable. Better get these fixed by replacing kmalloc() by
> kzalloc() instead.
> 
> Along with that we also remove use of .driver_data from SPEAr driver as it
> doesn't use it at all. Also, writing zero to .driver_data is not required for
> powernow-k8 as it is already zero.
> 
> Reported-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
> @Rafael: Please apply this one before:
> 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1673994
> 
> so that git bisect doesn't break. Though the chances of this field getting
> initialized to a value equal to BOOST, i.e. 0x1 are very rare.
> 
>  drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c      | 2 +-
>  drivers/cpufreq/ia64-acpi-cpufreq.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c          | 2 +-
>  drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c       | 5 ++---
>  drivers/cpufreq/s3c24xx-cpufreq.c   | 4 ++--
>  drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c     | 7 ++-----
>  6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> index d5eaedb..000e4e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy 
> *policy)
>               goto err_unreg;
>       }
> 
> -     data->freq_table = kmalloc(sizeof(*data->freq_table) *
> +     data->freq_table = kzalloc(sizeof(*data->freq_table) *
>                   (perf->state_count+1), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!data->freq_table) {
>               result = -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/ia64-acpi-cpufreq.c 
> b/drivers/cpufreq/ia64-acpi-cpufreq.c
> index beb191b..c30aaa6 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/ia64-acpi-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/ia64-acpi-cpufreq.c
> @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init (
>       }
> 
>       /* alloc freq_table */
> -     data->freq_table = kmalloc(sizeof(*data->freq_table) *
> +     data->freq_table = kzalloc(sizeof(*data->freq_table) *
>                                  (data->acpi_data.state_count + 1),
>                                  GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!data->freq_table) {
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c b/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c
> index 5c440f8..d00e5d1 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c
> @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ static int longhaul_get_ranges(void)
>               return -EINVAL;
>       }
> 
> -     longhaul_table = kmalloc((numscales + 1) * sizeof(*longhaul_table),
> +     longhaul_table = kzalloc((numscales + 1) * sizeof(*longhaul_table),
>                       GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!longhaul_table)
>               return -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> index 770a9e1..1b6ae6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ static int fill_powernow_table(struct powernow_k8_data 
> *data,
>       if (check_pst_table(data, pst, maxvid))
>               return -EINVAL;
> 
> -     powernow_table = kmalloc((sizeof(*powernow_table)
> +     powernow_table = kzalloc((sizeof(*powernow_table)
>               * (data->numps + 1)), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!powernow_table) {
>               printk(KERN_ERR PFX "powernow_table memory alloc failure\n");
> @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ static int powernow_k8_cpu_init_acpi(struct 
> powernow_k8_data *data)
>       }
> 
>       /* fill in data->powernow_table */
> -     powernow_table = kmalloc((sizeof(*powernow_table)
> +     powernow_table = kzalloc((sizeof(*powernow_table)
>               * (data->acpi_data.state_count + 1)), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!powernow_table) {
>               pr_debug("powernow_table memory alloc failure\n");
> @@ -810,7 +810,6 @@ static int powernow_k8_cpu_init_acpi(struct 
> powernow_k8_data *data)
> 
>       powernow_table[data->acpi_data.state_count].frequency =
>               CPUFREQ_TABLE_END;
> -     powernow_table[data->acpi_data.state_count].driver_data = 0;
>       data->powernow_table = powernow_table;
> 
>       if (cpumask_first(cpu_core_mask(data->cpu)) == data->cpu)
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/s3c24xx-cpufreq.c 
> b/drivers/cpufreq/s3c24xx-cpufreq.c
> index a3dc192..be1b2b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/s3c24xx-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/s3c24xx-cpufreq.c
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static int s3c_cpufreq_build_freq(void)
>       size = cpu_cur.info->calc_freqtable(&cpu_cur, NULL, 0);
>       size++;
> 
> -     ftab = kmalloc(sizeof(*ftab) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +     ftab = kzalloc(sizeof(*ftab) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!ftab) {
>               printk(KERN_ERR "%s: no memory for tables\n", __func__);
>               return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ int __init s3c_plltab_register(struct 
> cpufreq_frequency_table *plls,
> 
>       size = sizeof(*vals) * (plls_no + 1);
> 
> -     vals = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +     vals = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (vals) {
>               memcpy(vals, plls, size);
>               pll_reg = vals;
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
> index 4cfdcff..3867839 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
> @@ -195,18 +195,15 @@ static int spear_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device 
> *pdev)
>       cnt = prop->length / sizeof(u32);
>       val = prop->value;
> 
> -     freq_tbl = kmalloc(sizeof(*freq_tbl) * (cnt + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     freq_tbl = kzalloc(sizeof(*freq_tbl) * (cnt + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!freq_tbl) {
>               ret = -ENOMEM;
>               goto out_put_node;
>       }
> 
> -     for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
> -             freq_tbl[i].driver_data = i;
> +     for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++)
>               freq_tbl[i].frequency = be32_to_cpup(val++);
> -     }
> 
> -     freq_tbl[i].driver_data = i;
>       freq_tbl[i].frequency = CPUFREQ_TABLE_END;
> 
>       spear_cpufreq.freq_tbl = freq_tbl;
> -- 
> 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e
> 

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