The "whichcpu" comes from argv[3]. The cpu_online() macro looks up the cpu in a bitmap of online cpus, but if the value is too high then it could read beyond the end of the bitmap and possibly Oops. Fixes: 5d5314d6795f ("kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c index fc96dbf8d9de..9ecfa37c7fbf 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c @@ -2583,7 +2583,7 @@ static int kdb_per_cpu(int argc, const char **argv) diag = kdbgetularg(argv[3], &whichcpu); if (diag) return diag; - if (!cpu_online(whichcpu)) { + if (whichcpu >= nr_cpu_ids || !cpu_online(whichcpu)) { kdb_printf("cpu %ld is not online\n", whichcpu); return KDB_BADCPUNUM; } -- 2.18.0