Commit 8f5bc2ab authored by Jiri Slaby's avatar Jiri Slaby Committed by Dave Jones
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[CPUFREQ] fix BUG on cpufreq policy init failure

cpufreq_register_driver sets cpufreq_driver to a structure owned (and
placed) in the caller's memory. If cpufreq policy fails in its ->init
function, sysdev_driver_register returns nonzero in
cpufreq_register_driver. Now, cpufreq_register_driver returns an error
without setting cpufreq_driver back to NULL.

Usually cpufreq policy modules are unloaded because they propagate the
error to the module init function and return that.

So a later access to any member of cpufreq_driver causes bugs like:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa00270a0
IP: [<ffffffff8145eca3>] cpufreq_cpu_get+0x53/0xe0
PGD 1805067 PUD 1809063 PMD 1c3f90067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/tun0/statistics/collisions
CPU 0
Modules linked in: ...
Pid: 5677, comm: thunderbird-bin Tainted: G        W   2.6.38-rc4-mm1_64+ #1389 To be filled by O.E.M./To Be Filled By O.E.M.
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8145eca3>]  [<ffffffff8145eca3>] cpufreq_cpu_get...
parent a536b126
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