[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Don't try to transition if the pstate is incorrect

This patch augments the pstate transition code to error out
(instead of returning 0) when an incorrect pstate is provided.

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: andre.przywara@amd.com
CC: Mark.Langsdorf@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
index 287c56f6749a..bce576d7478e 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1104,7 +1104,8 @@ static int transition_frequency_pstate(struct powernow_k8_data *data,
         /* get MSR index for hardware pstate transition */
         pstate = index & HW_PSTATE_MASK;
         if (pstate > data->max_hw_pstate)
-                return 0;
+                return -EINVAL;
+
         freqs.old = find_khz_freq_from_pstate(data->powernow_table,
                         data->currpstate);
         freqs.new = find_khz_freq_from_pstate(data->powernow_table, pstate);