Merge tag 'v4.4.121' into toradex_vf_4.4-nextColibri-VF_LXDE-Image_2.8b2.97-20180331

This is the 4.4.121 stable release

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
index 832a2c3f01ff..9e98a5fbbc1d 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
@@ -613,6 +613,18 @@ int cpuidle_add_sysfs(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device((unsigned long)dev->cpu);
 	int error;
 
+	/*
+	 * Return if cpu_device is not setup for this CPU.
+	 *
+	 * This could happen if the arch did not set up cpu_device
+	 * since this CPU is not in cpu_present mask and the
+	 * driver did not send a correct CPU mask during registration.
+	 * Without this check we would end up passing bogus
+	 * value for &cpu_dev->kobj in kobject_init_and_add()
+	 */
+	if (!cpu_dev)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	kdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*kdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;