On 08.08.2015 21:47, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> What commit caused this issue?
>
> Apparently
>
> 0d55ba46bfbe ("x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs code to generic
> infrastructure")
>
> Looks like moving x86 to the generic cacheinfo stuff uncovered this
> shortcoming there...
>
>> And it's a bit late for 4.2, as you say 4.1 is also affected, I'll wait
>> for 4.3-rc1 to give this a chance to get some testing.
>
> Right, I guess that's fine too as it'll trickle to stable eventually...
>
> Thanks.
>
Just a note from my end. Seems this patch didn't made it into 4.3-rc1.
Any reason why?
diff --git a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
index 764280a91776..e9fd32e91668 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
@@ -148,7 +148,11 @@ static void cache_shared_cpu_map_remove(unsigned int cpu)
if (sibling == cpu) /* skip itself */
continue;
+
sib_cpu_ci = get_cpu_cacheinfo(sibling);
+ if (!sib_cpu_ci->info_list)
+ continue;
+
sib_leaf = sib_cpu_ci->info_list + index;
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &sib_leaf->shared_cpu_map);
cpumask_clear_cpu(sibling, &this_leaf->shared_cpu_map);
@@ -159,6 +163,9 @@ 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 +521,7 @@ 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);
