Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: Avoid NULL pointer dereferences at init time

[Viresh Kumar]

On 15-10-19, 19:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> rom: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If there are neither processor objects nor processor device objects
> in the ACPI tables, the per-CPU processors table will not be
> initialized and attempting to dereference pointers from there will
> cause the kernel to crash.  This happens in acpi_processor_ppc_init()
> and acpi_thermal_cpufreq_init() after commit d15ce412737a ("ACPI:
> cpufreq: Switch to QoS requests instead of cpufreq notifier")
> which didn't add the requisite NULL pointer checks in there.
> 
> Add the NULL pointer checks to acpi_processor_ppc_init() and
> acpi_thermal_cpufreq_init(), and to the corresponding "exit"
> routines.
> 
> While at it, drop redundant return instructions from
> acpi_processor_ppc_init() and acpi_thermal_cpufreq_init().
> 
> Fixes: d15ce412737a ("ACPI: cpufreq: Switch to QoS requests instead of cpufreq notifier")
> Reported-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c |   10 ++++++----
>  drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c |   10 ++++++----
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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viresh