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* [PATCH 2/3] percpu: fix percpu accessors to potentially !cpu_possible() cpus: pnpbios
@ 2008-11-21 10:40 Rusty Russell
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From: Rusty Russell @ 2008-11-21 10:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Adam Belay
  Cc: Mike Travis, Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel, Ingo Molnar, Adam Belay

Impact: CPU iterator bugfixes

Percpu areas are only allocated for possible cpus.  In general, you
shouldn't access random cpu's percpu areas.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
---
 drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -r
--- test-compile.orig/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c
+++ test-compile/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ void pnpbios_calls_init(union pnp_bios_i
 
 	set_base(bad_bios_desc, __va((unsigned long)0x40 << 4));
 	_set_limit((char *)&bad_bios_desc, 4095 - (0x40 << 4));
-	for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
+	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 		struct desc_struct *gdt = get_cpu_gdt_table(i);
 		if (!gdt)
 			continue;



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