[Bug 13780] NULL pointer dereference loading powernowk8

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13780





--- Comment #7 from Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>  2009-07-21 22:58:47 ---
At a guess, the failure is occurring here (lines 1291).  The oops reports the
error at powernow_cpu_init+0x30d, and the math to set the transition latency
that precedes this is pretty clearly at powernow_cpu_init+0x2df:

        /* only run on specific CPU from here on */
        oldmask = current->cpus_allowed;
        set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &cpumask_of_cpu(pol->cpu));


There's a patch series already in 2.6.31 that completely redoes this logic
because of potential NULL pointer issues.  Could you see if you still
experience the problem on 2.6.31-rc3?  If you don't, that would confirm the
problem and the solution in 2.6.31.  I'll also try to think of a way to fix it
for 2.6.30.

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