Re: [PATCH] NULL pointer might be used in ips_monitor()

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:06:28 +0800
minskey guo <chaohong.guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: minskey guo <chaohong_guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>  The patch is to enable creating ips_adjust thread before ips_monitor
>  executes because the latter will kthread_stop() or wake up the former
>  via ips->adjust pointer. Otherwise, it is possible that ips->adjust
> is NULL when kthread_stop() or wake_up_process() is called in
> ips_monitor()
> 
>  Besides, some trival changes:
>    a) correct an define of register bits;
>    b) old_cpu_power sample should not be divided by 65535
>    c) handling on error path in ips_get_i915_syms()

Excellent, thanks for the fixes.  Can you split up the patch into
individual fixes and send them over to the platform driver list and
Matthew Garrett?  You can add my acked-by on them.

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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