Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in acpi_processor_add()

[Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>]

On 2013-5-29 7:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, May 23, 2013 08:44:26 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> In acpi_processor_add(), get_cpu_device() will return NULL sometimes,
>> although the chances are small, I think it should be fixed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
> 
> This patch isn't necessary any more after the changes queued up for 3.11
> in the acpi-hotplug branch of the linux-pm.git tree.

Ok, I noticed your patch set, just drop my patch.

Thanks
Hanjun

> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 
> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c |    4 ++++
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
>> index bec717f..dd64f23 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
>> @@ -579,6 +579,10 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_add(struct acpi_device
>> *device)
>>         per_cpu(processors, pr->id) = pr;
>>
>>         dev = get_cpu_device(pr->id);
>> +       if (!dev) {
>> +               result = -ENODEV;
>> +               goto err_clear_processor;
>> +       }
>>         if (sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &dev->kobj, "sysdev")) {
>>                 result = -EFAULT;
>>                 goto err_clear_processor;
>>