The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     589343569d7b58a64ec2446e6686c8e79aea7fcf
Gitweb:        
https://git.kernel.org/tip/589343569d7b58a64ec2446e6686c8e79aea7fcf
Author:        Muchun Song <[email protected]>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:04:57 +08:00
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
CommitterDate: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:22:04 +02:00

smp: Fix a potential usage of stale nr_cpus

The get_option() maybe return 0, it means that the nr_cpus is
not initialized. Then we will use the stale nr_cpus to initialize
the nr_cpu_ids. So fix it.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---
 kernel/smp.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index aa17eed..d0ae8eb 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -634,8 +634,7 @@ static int __init nrcpus(char *str)
 {
        int nr_cpus;
 
-       get_option(&str, &nr_cpus);
-       if (nr_cpus > 0 && nr_cpus < nr_cpu_ids)
+       if (get_option(&str, &nr_cpus) && nr_cpus > 0 && nr_cpus < nr_cpu_ids)
                nr_cpu_ids = nr_cpus;
 
        return 0;

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