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Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 00:40:16 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bp@...e.de, tonyb@...ernetics.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/amd_nb: Fix boot crash on non-AMD systems

Commit-ID:  1ead852dd88779eda12cb09cc894a03d9abfe1ec
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1ead852dd88779eda12cb09cc894a03d9abfe1ec
Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
AuthorDate: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:13:49 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 09:35:35 +0200

x86/amd_nb: Fix boot crash on non-AMD systems

Fix boot crash that triggers if this driver is built into a kernel and
run on non-AMD systems.

AMD northbridges users call amd_cache_northbridges() and it returns
a negative value to signal that we weren't able to cache/detect any
northbridges on the system.

At least, it should do so as all its callers expect it to do so. But it
does return a negative value only when kmalloc() fails.

Fix it to return -ENODEV if there are no NBs cached as otherwise, amd_nb
users like amd64_edac, for example, which relies on it to know whether
it should load or not, gets loaded on systems like Intel Xeons where it
shouldn't.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@...ernetics.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466097230-5333-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5761BEB0.9000807@cybernetics.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c
index a147e67..e991d5c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ int amd_cache_northbridges(void)
 	while ((misc = next_northbridge(misc, amd_nb_misc_ids)) != NULL)
 		i++;
 
-	if (i == 0)
-		return 0;
+	if (!i)
+		return -ENODEV;
 
 	nb = kzalloc(i * sizeof(struct amd_northbridge), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nb)