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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	ashok.raj@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz
Subject: Re: [patch -mm4] i386 cpu hotplug: don't access freed memory
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:33:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060203013357.GA10209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060202165257.29dcfa20.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:52:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > @@ -160,10 +162,17 @@ static void __cpuinit get_cpu_vendor(str
 > >  				c->x86_vendor = i;
 > >  				if (!early)
 > >  					this_cpu = cpu_devs[i];
 > > -				break;
 > > +				return;
 > >  			}
 > >  		}
 > >  	}
 > > +	if (!printed) {
 > > +		printed++;
 > > +		printk(KERN_ERR "CPU: Vendor unknown, using generic init.\n");
 > > +		printk(KERN_ERR "CPU: Your system may be unstable.\n");
 > > +	}
 > > +	c->x86_vendor = X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN;
 > > +	this_cpu = &default_cpu;
 > 
 > Well that's a worry.  Under what circumstances (if any) will this final bit
 > of code get executed?

Some new x86 CPU vendor appears that we don't know about.

		Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03  0:00 [patch -mm4] i386 cpu hotplug: don't access freed memory Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-03  0:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-03  1:33   ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2006-02-03  7:02 Chuck Ebbert

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