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Subject[PATCH] cpuidle: Check for dev before deregistering it.
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If not, we could end up in the unfortunate situation where
we dereference a NULL pointer b/c we have cpuidle disabled.

This is the case when booting under Xen (which uses the
ACPI P/C states but disables the CPU idle driver) - and can
be easily reproduced when booting with cpuidle.off=1.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff8156db4a>] cpuidle_unregister_device+0x2a/0x90
.. snip..
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff813b15b4>] acpi_processor_power_exit+0x3c/0x5c
[<ffffffff813af0a9>] acpi_processor_stop+0x61/0xb6
[<ffffffff814215bf>] __device_release_driver+0fffff81421653>] device_release_driver+0x23/0x30
[<ffffffff81420ed8>] bus_remove_device+0x108/0x180
[<ffffffff8141d9d9>] device_del+0x129/0x1c0
[<ffffffff813cb4b0>] ? unregister_xenbus_watch+0x1f0/0x1f0
[<ffffffff8141da8e>] device_unregister+0x1e/0x60
[<ffffffff814243e9>] unregister_cpu+0x39/0x60
[<ffffffff81019e03>] arch_unregister_cpu+0x23/0x30
[<ffffffff813c3c51>] handle_vcpu_hotplug_event+0xc1/0xe0
[<ffffffff813cb4f5>] xenwatch_thread+0x45/0x120
[<ffffffff810af010>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0
[<ffffffff8108ec42>] kthread+0xd2/0xf0
[<ffffffff8108eb70>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
[<ffffffff816ce17c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff8108eb70>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180

This problem also appears in 3.12 and could be a candidate for backport.

CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
CC: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
CC: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 2a991e4..a55e68f 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
*/
void cpuidle_unregister_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
{
- if (dev->registered == 0)
+ if (!dev || dev->registered == 0)
return;

cpuidle_pause_and_lock();
--
1.8.3.1


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