[tip:x86/urgent] x86: mce: Handle banks == 0 case in K7 quirk

From: tip-bot for Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jun 17 2009 - 06:33:00 EST


Commit-ID: 203abd67b75f7714ce98ab0cdbd6cfd7ad79dec4
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/203abd67b75f7714ce98ab0cdbd6cfd7ad79dec4
Author: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:52:01 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:59:45 +0200

x86: mce: Handle banks == 0 case in K7 quirk

Vegard Nossum reported:

> I get an MCE-related crash like this in latest linus tree:
>
> [ 0.115341] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
> [ 0.116396] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
> [ 0.120570] mce: CPU supports 0 MCE banks
> [ 0.124870] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000 00000010
> [ 0.128001] IP: [<ffffffff813b98ad>] mcheck_init+0x278/0x320
> [ 0.128001] PGD 0
> [ 0.128001] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
> [ 0.128001] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 0.128001] last sysfs file:
> [ 0.128001] CPU 0
> [ 0.128001] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.128001] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30 #426
> [ 0.128001] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813b98ad>] [<ffffffff813b98ad>] mcheck_init+0x278/0x320
> [ 0.128001] RSP: 0018:ffffffff81595e38 EFLAGS: 00000246
> [ 0.128001] RAX: 0000000000000010 RBX: ffffffff8158f900 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [ 0.128001] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: 0000000000000010
> [ 0.128001] RBP: ffffffff81595e68 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 0.128001] R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 0.128001] R13: 00000000ffffffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> [ 0.128001] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880002288000(0000) knlGS:00000
> 00000000000
> [ 0.128001] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [ 0.128001] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000001001000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
> [ 0.128001] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 0.128001] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 0000000000000000 DR7: 0000000000000000
> [ 0.128001] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81594000, task ffffff
> ff8152a4a0)
> [ 0.128001] Stack:
> [ 0.128001] 0000000081595e68 5aa50ed3b4ddbe6e ffffffff8158f900 ffffffff8158f
> 914
> [ 0.128001] ffffffff8158f948 0000000000000000 ffffffff81595eb8 ffffffff813b8
> 69c
> [ 0.128001] 5aa50ed3b4ddbe6e 00000001078bfbfd 0000062300000800 5aa50ed3b4ddb
> e6e
> [ 0.128001] Call Trace:
> [ 0.128001] [<ffffffff813b869c>] identify_cpu+0x331/0x392
> [ 0.128001] [<ffffffff815a1445>] identify_boot_cpu+0x23/0x6e
> [ 0.128001] [<ffffffff815a14ac>] check_bugs+0x1c/0x60
> [ 0.128001] [<ffffffff8159c075>] start_kernel+0x403/0x46e
> [ 0.128001] [<ffffffff8159b2ac>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xac/0xd5
> [ 0.128001] [<ffffffff8159b3ea>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x115/0x14b
> [ 0.128001] [<ffffffff8159b140>] ? early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71

This happens on QEMU which reports MCA capability, but no banks.
Without this patch there is a buffer overrun and boot ops because
the code would try to initialize the 0 element of a zero length
kmalloc() buffer.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20090615125200.GD31969@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index fabba15..d9d77cf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ static void mce_cpu_quirks(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
* Various K7s with broken bank 0 around. Always disable
* by default.
*/
- if (c->x86 == 6)
+ if (c->x86 == 6 && banks > 0)
bank[0] = 0;
}

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