linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/7] ARM: perf_event: Assign pdev pointer earlier for CPU PMUs

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Message-Id: <1391806885-24210-3-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Fri,  7 Feb 2014 13:01:20 -0800
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/7] ARM: perf_event: Assign pdev pointer earlier for CPU PMUs

We want to inspect the of_node that the pdev is pointing to in
the Krait CPU specific PMU initialization function. Assign it
earlier so that we don't crash with a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c
index 6efd8aab15df..68d02ca0ca1b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c
@@ -311,6 +311,9 @@ static int cpu_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
+	cpu_pmu = pmu;
+	cpu_pmu->plat_device = pdev;
+
 	if (node && (of_id = of_match_node(cpu_pmu_of_device_ids, pdev->dev.of_node))) {
 		init_fn = of_id->data;
 		ret = init_fn(pmu);
@@ -323,8 +326,6 @@ static int cpu_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		goto out_free;
 	}
 
-	cpu_pmu = pmu;
-	cpu_pmu->plat_device = pdev;
 	cpu_pmu_init(cpu_pmu);
 	ret = armpmu_register(cpu_pmu, PERF_TYPE_RAW);
 
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