[PATCH] powerpc/perfctr: Check oprofile_cpu_type for NULL before using it
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Aug 6 16:41:50 EST 2009
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 14:02 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> If the current CPU doesn't support performance counters,
> cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type can be NULL. The current
> perfctr modules don't test for that case and would thus
> crash.
It can't actually be NULL on a 64-bit CPU; all 64-bit CPUs in the table
have ->oprofile_cpu_type set.
Of course, adding the check probably makes sense anyway.
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