Commit f36fdb9f0266 (i8k: Force SMM to run on CPU 0) adds support
for multi-core CPUs to the driver. Unfortunately, that causes it
to fail loading if compiled without SMP support, at least on
32 bit kernels. Kernel log shows "i8k: unable to get SMM Dell
signature", and function i8k_smm is found to return -EINVAL.
Testing revealed that the culprit is the missing return value check
of set_cpus_allowed_ptr.
Fixes: f36fdb9f0266 (i8k: Force SMM to run on CPU 0)
Reported-by: Jim Bos <jim876@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jim Bos <jim876@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/i8k.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/i8k.c b/drivers/char/i8k.c
index d915707..93dcad0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/i8k.c
+++ b/drivers/char/i8k.c
@@ -138,7 +138,9 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs)
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&old_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
cpumask_copy(old_mask, ¤t->cpus_allowed);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(0));
+ rc = set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(0));
+ if (rc)
+ goto out;
if (smp_processor_id() != 0) {
rc = -EBUSY;
goto out;
--
1.9.1
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