drivers/base: cacheinfo: handle absence of caches
authorSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Wed, 27 May 2015 10:26:13 +0000 (11:26 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 1 Jun 2015 01:34:24 +0000 (10:34 +0900)
commit3370e13aa463adb84488ebf0e599e3dc0024315b
tree23b6ab2c26ca2ade363b6f9a37803defbded11c2
parent194ec9368c0dbc421acdb2620d4dfb3cc3d022ff
drivers/base: cacheinfo: handle absence of caches

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: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19.x
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: William Wang <william.wang@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/cacheinfo.c