Re: Backport "cpuidle: Check the result of cpuidle_get_driver() against NULL"

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 05:55:40PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> I'd like to propose 34e02c05bb1e (cpuidle: Check the result of
> cpuidle_get_driver() against NULL) for backporting to -stable.
> 
> This is a small, non-invasive patch readily reviewed by inspection which
> fixes a crash if there's no cpuidle driver.  We've run into the issue it
> fixes when testing on stable kernels and though we did use some out of
> tree patches which made it much easier to trigger the issue is present
> in the underlying kernel.

I believe you actually mean commit:

3b9c10e cpuidle: Check the result of cpuidle_get_driver() against NULL

I'll queue it for the 3.11 kernel.  Thanks!

Cheers,
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Luís
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