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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-06-10 18:59:23 +0000
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2006-06-22 12:16:12 -0700
commitbb2f2dbc934bd12945074118932907a315f722ea (patch)
treed2d1ab7242525ab3673b51bdf13ff4fdc536fc42
parentd83d3226f92a802242e8e80d0c7206d7b39c7b49 (diff)
downloadlinux-rt-bb2f2dbc934bd12945074118932907a315f722ea.tar.gz
[PATCH] powernow-k8 crash workaround
Work around the oops reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478. Thanks to Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> for testing and reporting. Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
index abbdb37a7f5f..f36db22ce1ae 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
@@ -577,6 +577,8 @@ acpi_processor_register_performance(struct acpi_processor_performance
return_VALUE(-EBUSY);
}
+ WARN_ON(!performance);
+
pr->performance = performance;
if (acpi_processor_get_performance_info(pr)) {
@@ -609,7 +611,8 @@ acpi_processor_unregister_performance(struct acpi_processor_performance
return_VOID;
}
- kfree(pr->performance->states);
+ if (pr->performance)
+ kfree(pr->performance->states);
pr->performance = NULL;
acpi_cpufreq_remove_file(pr);