This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drivers/base: cacheinfo: handle absence of caches
to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drivers-base-cacheinfo-handle-absence-of-caches.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3370e13aa463adb84488ebf0e599e3dc0024315b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:26:13 +0100
Subject: drivers/base: cacheinfo: handle absence of caches
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
commit 3370e13aa463adb84488ebf0e599e3dc0024315b upstream.
On some simulators like GEM5, caches may not be simulated. In those
cases, the cache levels and leaves will be zero and will result in
following exception:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0040
pgd = ffffffc0008fa000
[00000040] *pgd=00000009f6807003, *pud=00000009f6807003,
*pmd=00000009f6808003, *pte=006000002c010707
Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #198
task: ffffffc9768a0000 ti: ffffffc9768a8000 task.ti: ffffffc9768a8000
PC is at detect_cache_attributes+0x98/0x2c8
LR is at detect_cache_attributes+0x88/0x2c8
kcalloc(0) returns a special value ZERO_SIZE_PTR which is non-NULL value
but results in fault only on any attempt to dereferencing it. So
checking for the non-NULL pointer will not suffice.
This patch checks for non-zero cache leaf nodes and returns error if
there are no cache leaves in detect_cache_attributes.
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: William Wang <william.wang@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/cacheinfo.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int detect_cache_attributes(unsig
{
int ret;
- if (init_cache_level(cpu))
+ if (init_cache_level(cpu) || !cache_leaves(cpu))
return -ENOENT;
per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu) = kcalloc(cache_leaves(cpu),
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.0/drivers-base-cacheinfo-handle-absence-of-caches.patch
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