From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752745AbbGZIOI (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2015 04:14:08 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:52896 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751993AbbGZIOE (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2015 04:14:04 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:13:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Philip_M=FCller?= cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sudeep Holla , Guenter Roeck , manjaro-dev@manjaro.org, Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andre Przywara , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [linux41] regression with 'x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs code to generic infrastructure' on AMD i686 In-Reply-To: <55B47BB8.6080202@manjaro.org> Message-ID: References: <55B16967.1040609@manjaro.org> <55B47BB8.6080202@manjaro.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323329-294823616-1437898426=:18576" X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-294823616-1437898426=:18576 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Philip Müller wrote: > > task: f58e0000 ti: f58e8000 task.ti: f58e800 > > EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 0 > > EIP is at free_cache_attributes+0x83/0xd0 > > EAX: 00000001 EBX: f589d46c ECX: 00000090 EDX: 360c2000 > > ESI: 00000000 EDI: c1724a80 EBP: f58e9ec0 ESP: f58e9ea0 > > DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 > > CR0: 8005003b CR2: 000000ac CR3: 01731000 CR4: 000006d0 That's a trivial NULL pointer dereference in the error/cleanup path. Patch below should fix it. Thanks, tglx --- diff --git a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c index 764280a91776..f09b106d8b81 100644 --- a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c +++ b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c @@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ static void cache_shared_cpu_map_remove(unsigned int cpu) static void free_cache_attributes(unsigned int cpu) { + if (!per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu)) + return; + cache_shared_cpu_map_remove(cpu); kfree(per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu)); @@ -514,8 +517,7 @@ static int cacheinfo_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, break; case CPU_DEAD: cache_remove_dev(cpu); - if (per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu)) - free_cache_attributes(cpu); + free_cache_attributes(cpu); break; } return notifier_from_errno(rc); --8323329-294823616-1437898426=:18576--