If mce_device_init() fails then the mce device pointer is NULL and the AMD mce code happily dereferences it. Add a sanity check. Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf Reported-by: Boris Ostrovsky Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c @@ -1182,6 +1182,9 @@ static int threshold_create_bank(unsigne const char *name = get_name(bank, NULL); int err = 0; + if (!dev) + return -ENODEV; + if (is_shared_bank(bank)) { nb = node_to_amd_nb(amd_get_nb_id(cpu));