[PATCH 3/3] [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Don't try to transition if the pstate is incorrect

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

This patch augments the pstate transition code to error out
(instead of returning 0) when an incorrect pstate is provided.

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: andre.przywara@xxxxxxx
CC: Mark.Langsdorf@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
index 287c56f..bce576d 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1104,7 +1104,8 @@ static int transition_frequency_pstate(struct powernow_k8_data *data,
 	/* get MSR index for hardware pstate transition */
 	pstate = index & HW_PSTATE_MASK;
 	if (pstate > data->max_hw_pstate)
-		return 0;
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	freqs.old = find_khz_freq_from_pstate(data->powernow_table,
 			data->currpstate);
 	freqs.new = find_khz_freq_from_pstate(data->powernow_table, pstate);
-- 
1.7.4.1

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