With nosmp in cmdline, other CPUs are not brought up, leaving their cpc_desc_ptr NULL. CPU0's iteration via for_each_possible_cpu() dereferences these NULL pointers, causing panic. Panic backtrace: [ 0.401123] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000b8 ... [ 0.403255] [<ffffffff809a5818>] cppc_allow_fast_switch+0x6a/0xd4 ... Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Fixes: 3cc30dd00a58 ("cpufreq: CPPC: Enable fast_switch") Reported-by: Xu Lu <luxu.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c index a9ae2fd628630..6b649031808f8 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ bool cppc_allow_fast_switch(void) struct cpc_desc *cpc_ptr; int cpu; - for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { + for_each_present_cpu(cpu) { cpc_ptr = per_cpu(cpc_desc_ptr, cpu); desired_reg = &cpc_ptr->cpc_regs[DESIRED_PERF]; if (!CPC_IN_SYSTEM_MEMORY(desired_reg) && -- 2.39.5