linux-kernel - [57/70] powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch

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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:09:06 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: [57/70] powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch_log is called too early

2.6.38-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>

commit 84ffae55af79d7b8834fd0c08d0d1ebf2c77f91e upstream.

We currently enable interrupts before the dispatch log for the boot
cpu is setup. If a timer interrupt comes in early enough we oops in
scan_dispatch_log:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000010

...

.scan_dispatch_log+0xb0/0x170
.account_system_vtime+0xa0/0x220
.irq_enter+0x88/0xc0
.do_IRQ+0x48/0x230

The patch below adds a check to scan_dispatch_log to ensure the
dispatch log has been allocated.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ static u64 scan_dispatch_log(u64 stop_tb
 	u64 stolen = 0;
 	u64 dtb;
 
+	if (!dtl)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (i == vpa->dtl_idx)
 		return 0;
 	while (i < vpa->dtl_idx) {


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