[PATCH] arm: smp-twd: check for uninitialized clock in twd_cpufreq_init

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Sat Feb 18 10:56:30 EST 2012


Hello.

On 17-02-2012 14:34, Tero Kristo wrote:

> Non-smp platforms don't have local timer support, but the twd_cpufreq_init
> only checks for IS_ERR during init. Check against null also, to avoid
> crashes during cpufreq transitions on non-smp platforms.

> Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c
> index 4285daa..dae8902 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static struct notifier_block twd_cpufreq_nb = {
>
>   static int twd_cpufreq_init(void)
>   {
> -	if (!IS_ERR(twd_clk))
> +	if (twd_clk&&  !IS_ERR(twd_clk))

    Why not !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(twd_clk)?

WBR, Sergei



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