linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add check for node passed to node_to

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Message-ID: <4863C334.2090007@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:26:28 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add check for node passed to node_to_cpumask

Subject: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add check for node passed to node_to_cpumask

  * When CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is set, the node passed to
    node_to_cpumask and node_to_cpumask_ptr should be validated.

Based on "Thu Jun 26 09:23:55 PDT 2008" tip/master... ;-)

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c    |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/asm-x86/topology.h |    7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ linux-2.6.tip/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -377,6 +377,10 @@ int early_cpu_to_node(int cpu)
 	return per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_node_map, cpu);
 }
 
+
+/* empty cpumask */
+static const cpumask_t cpu_mask_none;
+
 /*
  * Returns a pointer to the bitmask of CPUs on Node 'node'.
  */
@@ -389,13 +393,23 @@ cpumask_t *_node_to_cpumask_ptr(int node
 		dump_stack();
 		return &cpu_online_map;
 	}
-	BUG_ON(node >= nr_node_ids);
-	return &node_to_cpumask_map[node];
+	if (node >= nr_node_ids) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+			"_node_to_cpumask_ptr(%d): node > nr_node_ids(%d)\n",
+			node, nr_node_ids);
+		dump_stack();
+		return &cpu_mask_none;
+	}
+	return (cpumask_t *)&node_to_cpumask_map[node];
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_node_to_cpumask_ptr);
 
 /*
  * Returns a bitmask of CPUs on Node 'node'.
+ *
+ * Side note: this function creates the returned cpumask on the stack
+ * so with a high NR_CPUS count, excessive stack space is used.  The
+ * node_to_cpumask_ptr function should be used whenever possible.
  */
 cpumask_t node_to_cpumask(int node)
 {
@@ -405,7 +419,13 @@ cpumask_t node_to_cpumask(int node)
 		dump_stack();
 		return cpu_online_map;
 	}
-	BUG_ON(node >= nr_node_ids);
+	if (node >= nr_node_ids) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+			"node_to_cpumask(%d): node > nr_node_ids(%d)\n",
+			node, nr_node_ids);
+		dump_stack();
+		return cpu_mask_none;
+	}
 	return node_to_cpumask_map[node];
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_to_cpumask);
--- linux-2.6.tip.orig/include/asm-x86/topology.h
+++ linux-2.6.tip/include/asm-x86/topology.h
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ static inline int cpu_to_node(int cpu)
 }
 #define early_cpu_to_node(cpu)	cpu_to_node(cpu)
 
-/* Returns a bitmask of CPUs on Node 'node'. */
+/* Returns a bitmask of CPUs on Node 'node'.
+ *
+ * Side note: this function creates the returned cpumask on the stack
+ * so with a high NR_CPUS count, excessive stack space is used.  The
+ * node_to_cpumask_ptr function should be used whenever possible.
+ */
 static inline cpumask_t node_to_cpumask(int node)
 {
 	return node_to_cpumask_map[node];
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