linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.0 036/105] drivers/base: cacheinfo: handle absence of caches

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:35:26 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	William Wang <william.wang@....com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.0 036/105] drivers/base: cacheinfo: handle absence of caches

4.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>

commit 3370e13aa463adb84488ebf0e599e3dc0024315b upstream.

On some simulators like GEM5, caches may not be simulated. In those
cases, the cache levels and leaves will be zero and will result in
following exception:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0040
pgd = ffffffc0008fa000
[00000040] *pgd=00000009f6807003, *pud=00000009f6807003,
	   *pmd=00000009f6808003, *pte=006000002c010707
Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #198
task: ffffffc9768a0000 ti: ffffffc9768a8000 task.ti: ffffffc9768a8000
PC is at detect_cache_attributes+0x98/0x2c8
LR is at detect_cache_attributes+0x88/0x2c8

kcalloc(0) returns a special value ZERO_SIZE_PTR which is non-NULL value
but results in fault only on any attempt to dereferencing it. So
checking for the non-NULL pointer will not suffice.

This patch checks for non-zero cache leaf nodes and returns error if
there are no cache leaves in detect_cache_attributes.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: William Wang <william.wang@....com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/base/cacheinfo.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int detect_cache_attributes(unsig
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	if (init_cache_level(cpu))
+	if (init_cache_level(cpu) || !cache_leaves(cpu))
 		return -ENOENT;
 
 	per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu) = kcalloc(cache_leaves(cpu),


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