FAILED: patch "[PATCH] cpufreq: Reference count policy in cpufreq_update_limits()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 9e4e249018d208678888bdf22f6b652728106528
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025041717-parrot-computing-a78a@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 9e4e249018d208678888bdf22f6b652728106528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:39:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Reference count policy in cpufreq_update_limits()
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Since acpi_processor_notify() can be called before registering a cpufreq driver or even in cases when a cpufreq driver is not registered at all, cpufreq_update_limits() needs to check if a cpufreq driver is present and prevent it from being unregistered.

For this purpose, make it call cpufreq_cpu_get() to obtain a cpufreq policy pointer for the given CPU and reference count the corresponding policy object, if present.

index 0cf5a320bb5e..3841c9da6cac 100644
@@ -2809,6 +2809,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpufreq_update_policy);
  */
 void cpufreq_update_limits(unsigned int cpu)
 {
+	struct cpufreq_policy *policy __free(put_cpufreq_policy);
+
+	policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
+	if (!policy)
+		return;
+
 	if (cpufreq_driver->update_limits)
 		cpufreq_driver->update_limits(cpu);
 	else