4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Darren Stevens <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit af2b7fa17eb92e52b65f96604448ff7a2a89ee99 upstream. prom_init.c calls 'instance-to-package' twice, but the return is not checked during prom_find_boot_cpu(). The result is then passed to prom_getprop(), which could be PROM_ERROR. Add a return check to prevent this. This was found on a pasemi system, where CFE doesn't have a working 'instance-to package' prom call. Before Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') the area around addr 0 was mostly 0's and this doesn't cause a problem. Once the macro 'FIXUP_ENDIAN' has been added to head_64.S, the low memory area now has non-zero values, which cause the prom_getprop() call to hang. mpe: Also confirmed that under SLOF if 'instance-to-package' did fail with PROM_ERROR we would crash in SLOF. So the bug is not specific to CFE, it's just that other open firmwares don't trigger it because they have a working 'instance-to-package'. Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ("powerpc: Endian safe trampoline") Signed-off-by: Darren Stevens <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c @@ -2664,6 +2664,9 @@ static void __init prom_find_boot_cpu(vo cpu_pkg = call_prom("instance-to-package", 1, 1, prom_cpu); + if (!PHANDLE_VALID(cpu_pkg)) + return; + prom_getprop(cpu_pkg, "reg", &rval, sizeof(rval)); prom.cpu = be32_to_cpu(rval); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html