* [PATCH] 2/7 Fix potential NULL pointer
@ 2003-02-28 21:33 Martin J. Bligh
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From: Martin J. Bligh @ 2003-02-28 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel
translation_table could be unintialised on machines other than NUMA-Q.
You never see this, as the compiler happens to optimise it away, but
it's still a Really Bad Idea (tm). Thanks to someone whose name I have
unfortunately forgotten for pointing this out.
Has been tested in my tree for over two weeks on UP, SMP, and NUMA and
compile tested against a variety of different configs.
diff -urpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude 010-local_pgdat/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c 011-mpc_apic_id/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
--- 010-local_pgdat/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c Tue Feb 25 23:03:43 2003
+++ 011-mpc_apic_id/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c Fri Feb 28 08:05:34 2003
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ void __init MP_processor_info (struct mp
if (!(m->mpc_cpuflag & CPU_ENABLED))
return;
- apicid = mpc_apic_id(m, translation_table[mpc_record]->trans_quad);
+ apicid = mpc_apic_id(m, translation_table[mpc_record]);
if (m->mpc_featureflag&(1<<0))
Dprintk(" Floating point unit present.\n");
diff -urpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-bigsmp/mach_apic.h 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-bigsmp/mach_apic.h
--- 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-bigsmp/mach_apic.h Fri Jan 17 09:18:31 2003
+++ 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-bigsmp/mach_apic.h Fri Feb 28 08:05:34 2003
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ static inline int cpu_to_logical_apicid(
return (int)cpu_2_logical_apicid[cpu];
}
-static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m, int quad)
+static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m,
+ struct mpc_config_translation *translation_record)
{
printk("Processor #%d %ld:%ld APIC version %d\n",
m->mpc_apicid,
diff -urpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_apic.h 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_apic.h
--- 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_apic.h Fri Jan 17 09:18:31 2003
+++ 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_apic.h Fri Feb 28 08:05:34 2003
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ static inline unsigned long apicid_to_cp
return (1ul << phys_apicid);
}
-static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m, int quad)
+static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m,
+ struct mpc_config_translation *translation_record)
{
printk("Processor #%d %ld:%ld APIC version %d\n",
m->mpc_apicid,
diff -urpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-numaq/mach_apic.h 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-numaq/mach_apic.h
--- 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-numaq/mach_apic.h Fri Jan 17 09:18:31 2003
+++ 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-numaq/mach_apic.h Fri Feb 28 08:05:34 2003
@@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ static inline unsigned long apicid_to_cp
return ( (logical_apicid&0xf) << (4*apicid_to_node(logical_apicid)) );
}
-static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m, int quad)
+static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m,
+ struct mpc_config_translation *translation_record)
{
+ int quad = translation_record->trans_quad;
int logical_apicid = generate_logical_apicid(quad, m->mpc_apicid);
printk("Processor #%d %ld:%ld APIC version %d (quad %d, apic %d)\n",
diff -urpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-summit/mach_apic.h 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-summit/mach_apic.h
--- 010-local_pgdat/include/asm-i386/mach-summit/mach_apic.h Sat Feb 15 16:11:45 2003
+++ 011-mpc_apic_id/include/asm-i386/mach-summit/mach_apic.h Fri Feb 28 08:05:34 2003
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ static inline unsigned long apicid_to_cp
return (1ul << apicid);
}
-static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m, int quad)
+static inline int mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_config_processor *m,
+ struct mpc_config_translation *translation_record)
{
printk("Processor #%d %ld:%ld APIC version %d\n",
m->mpc_apicid,
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