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Frank Asseg
6c59f64b7e tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault
Fixes a segfault occurring when e.g. <TAB> is pressed multiple times in the
ncurses tmon application. The segfault is caused by incrementing
cur_thermal_record in the main function without checking if it's value reached
NR_THERMAL_RECORD immediately. Since the boundary check only occurred in
update_thermal_data a race condition existed, which lead to an attempted read
beyond the last element of the trec array.

The fix was implemented by moving the cur_thermal_record incrementation to the
update_thermal_data function using a temporary variable on which the boundary
condition is checked before updating cur_thread_record, so that the variable is
never incremented beyond the trec array's boundary.

It seems the segfault does not occur on every machine: On a HP EliteBook G4 the
segfault happens, while it does not happen on a Thinkpad T540p.

Signed-off-by: Frank Asseg <frank.asseg@objecthunter.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2018-03-27 09:51:23 +02:00
Arjun Sreedharan
e4e458b45c calloc/xcalloc: Fix argument order
The calloc() and xcalloc() functions takes @nmemb first and then @size.  Fix all w/
pattern "calloc\s*(\s*sizeof".

Signed-off-by: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417866043-1877-1-git-send-email-arjun024@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-12-09 10:06:29 -03:00
Jacob Pan
94f69966fa tools/thermal: Introduce tmon, a tool for thermal subsystem
Increasingly, Linux is running on thermally constrained devices. The simple
thermal relationship between processor and fan has become past for modern
computers.

As hardware vendors cope with the thermal constraints on their products,
more sensors are added, new cooling capabilities are introduced. The
complexity of the thermal relationship can grow exponentially among cooling
devices, zones, sensors, and trip points. They can also change dynamically.

To expose such relationship to the userspace, Linux generic thermal layer
introduced sysfs entry at /sys/class/thermal with a matrix of symbolic
links, trip point bindings, and device instances. To traverse such
matrix by hand is not a trivial task. Testing is also difficult in that
thermal conditions are often exception cases that hard to reach in
normal operations.

TMON is conceived as a tool to help visualize, tune, and test the
complex thermal subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
2013-11-07 08:45:34 +08:00