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Commit 41dc750e authored by Li, Fei's avatar Li, Fei Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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cpuidle: check dev before usage in cpuidle_use_deepest_state()



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: bb8313b6 (cpuidle: Allow enforcing deepest idle state selection)
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi, Fei <fei.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarShi, Feng <fengx.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: 4.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10+
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent 0baa91cb
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