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authorChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>2006-02-04 23:28:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-05 11:06:53 -0800
commitfe38d8553ccb5237bf0eddda9e94fbca7288551c (patch)
tree4ebdcf473fcf7e429536e86346c258514671f044 /arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
parent170aa3d02614ae621d54af10555e2f48977ae8de (diff)
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[PATCH] i386 cpu hotplug: don't access freed memory
i386 CPU init code accesses freed init memory when booting a newly-started processor after CPU hotplug. The cpu_devs array is searched to find the vendor and it contains pointers to freed data. Fix that by: 1. Zeroing entries for freed vendor data after bootup. 2. Changing Transmeta, NSC and UMC to all __init[data]. 3. Printing a warning (once only) and setting this_cpu to a safe default when the vendor is not found. This does not change behavior for AMD systems. They were broken already but no error was reported. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 15aee26ec2b63..7eb9213734a32 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static void default_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 * c)
static struct cpu_dev default_cpu = {
.c_init = default_init,
+ .c_vendor = "Unknown",
};
static struct cpu_dev * this_cpu = &default_cpu;
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ static void __devinit get_cpu_vendor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c, int early)
{
char *v = c->x86_vendor_id;
int i;
+ static int printed;
for (i = 0; i < X86_VENDOR_NUM; i++) {
if (cpu_devs[i]) {
@@ -159,10 +161,17 @@ static void __devinit get_cpu_vendor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c, int early)
c->x86_vendor = i;
if (!early)
this_cpu = cpu_devs[i];
- break;
+ return;
}
}
}
+ if (!printed) {
+ printed++;
+ printk(KERN_ERR "CPU: Vendor unknown, using generic init.\n");
+ printk(KERN_ERR "CPU: Your system may be unstable.\n");
+ }
+ c->x86_vendor = X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN;
+ this_cpu = &default_cpu;
}