hpet_virt_address may be NULL when ioremap_nocache fails. The patch checks for such a scenario and avoids NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki...@umn.edu> --- arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c index dfd3aca82c61..fb32925a2e62 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c @@ -905,6 +905,8 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) return 0; hpet_set_mapping(); + if (!hpet_virt_address) + return 0; /* * Read the period and check for a sane value: -- 2.17.1