In case of there is no cpuidle devices registered, dev will be null, and
panic will be triggered like below;
In this patch, add checking of dev before usage, like that done in
cpuidle_idle_call.
Panic without fix:
[ 184.961328] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
(null)
[ 184.961328] IP: cpuidle_use_deepest_state+0x30/0x60
...
[ 184.961328] play_idle+0x8d/0x210
[ 184.961328] ? __schedule+0x359/0x8e0
[ 184.961328] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x50
[ 184.961328] ? kthread_queue_delayed_work+0x41/0x80
[ 184.961328] clamp_idle_injection_func+0x64/0x1e0
Fixes:
bb8313b603eb8 (cpuidle: Allow enforcing deepest idle state selection)
Signed-off-by: Li, Fei <fei.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Shi, Feng <fengx.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: 4.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
preempt_disable();
dev = cpuidle_get_device();
- dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
+ if (dev)
+ dev->use_deepest_state = enable;
preempt_enable();
}