From: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
To: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Avoid uninitialized read in hwprobe_get_cpus()
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:50:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87qzmbe8dm.fsf@yellow.woof> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260612045502.70850-1-mark.hsj@gmail.com>
Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com> writes:
> When cpusetsize < cpumask_size(), hwprobe_get_cpus() did not fully
> initialize its copy of the cpu mask, which could cause non-deterministic
> results from the riscv_hwprobe syscall on a system with more than 8 CPUs
> when the supplied cpu mask is empty. Address this by fully initializing
> the cpu mask.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
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2026-06-12 4:55 [PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Avoid uninitialized read in hwprobe_get_cpus() Mark Harris
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