From fbb5b89eabea5ae7d621b7861863159560d8faa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:36:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Don't try to transition if the pstate is incorrect This patch augments the pstate transition code to error out (instead of returning 0) when an incorrect pstate is provided. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov CC: andre.przywara@amd.com CC: Mark.Langsdorf@amd.com Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Dave Jones --- drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c index 287c56f..bce576d 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c @@ -1104,7 +1104,8 @@ static int transition_frequency_pstate(struct powernow_k8_data *data, /* get MSR index for hardware pstate transition */ pstate = index & HW_PSTATE_MASK; if (pstate > data->max_hw_pstate) - return 0; + return -EINVAL; + freqs.old = find_khz_freq_from_pstate(data->powernow_table, data->currpstate); freqs.new = find_khz_freq_from_pstate(data->powernow_table, pstate); -- 2.7.4