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drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c: avoid NULL pointer dereference

per_cpu(processors, n) can be NULL, resulting in:

Loading CPUFreq modules[ 437.661360] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffffa0434314>] pcc_cpufreq_cpu_init+0x74/0x220 [pcc_cpufreq]

It's better to avoid the oops by failing the driver, and allowing the
system to boot.

Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Naga Chumbalkar and committed by
Linus Torvalds
e71f5cc4 88cee8fd

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drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c
··· 261 261 pr = per_cpu(processors, cpu); 262 262 pcc_cpu_data = per_cpu_ptr(pcc_cpu_info, cpu); 263 263 264 + if (!pr) 265 + return -ENODEV; 266 + 264 267 status = acpi_evaluate_object(pr->handle, "PCCP", NULL, &buffer); 265 268 if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) 266 269 return -ENODEV;