[CPUFREQ] Fix use after free of struct powernow_k8_data

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Easy fix for a regression introduced in 2.6.31.

On managed CPUs the cpufreq.c core will call driver->exit(cpu) on the
managed cpus and powernow_k8 will free the core's data.

Later driver->get(cpu) function might get called trying to read out the
current freq of a managed cpu and the NULL pointer check does not work on
the freed object -> better set it to NULL.

->get() is unsigned and must return 0 as invalid frequency.

Reference:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14391

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

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Thomas Renninger 2009-12-14 11:44:15 +01:00 • committed by Dave Jones

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