[PATCH 28/30] cpuidle / ACPI: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Len Brown
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 02:04:19 EST


From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The dereference should be moved below the NULL test.

dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch.
(https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
index 3655ab9..e8086c7 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_setup_cpuidle_states(struct acpi_processor *pr)
int acpi_processor_hotplug(struct acpi_processor *pr)
{
int ret = 0;
- struct cpuidle_device *dev = per_cpu(acpi_cpuidle_device, pr->id);
+ struct cpuidle_device *dev;

if (disabled_by_idle_boot_param())
return 0;
@@ -1147,6 +1147,7 @@ int acpi_processor_hotplug(struct acpi_processor *pr)
if (!pr->flags.power_setup_done)
return -ENODEV;

+ dev = per_cpu(acpi_cpuidle_device, pr->id);
cpuidle_pause_and_lock();
cpuidle_disable_device(dev);
acpi_processor_get_power_info(pr);
--
1.8.0.rc1

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