Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Fix NULL reference crash while accessing policy->governor_data

[Viresh Kumar]

On 27-01-16, 23:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> So I've applied this, but I'm not sure it is sufficient yet.

At least, this solves the crash Juri was hitting on a multi cluster
box.

> Have you double checked whether or not stuff cannot be reordered by
> the CPU and/or the compiler and no additional memory barriers are needed?

I don't think CPU will reorder things before a function call. It can
reorder lines, which CPU thinks aren't related but it can't assume the
same in this case. We have tons of code like this.

@Juri: What do you say? 

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viresh