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authorAaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nsn.com>2014-07-22 14:51:08 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-09-17 09:03:58 -0700
commitd2a3ec399f0429d595ca3b14849b001ebb091f78 (patch)
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MIPS: OCTEON: make get_system_type() thread-safe
commit 608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d upstream. get_system_type() is not thread-safe on OCTEON. It uses static data, also more dangerous issue is that it's calling cvmx_fuse_read_byte() every time without any synchronization. Currently it's possible to get processes stuck looping forever in kernel simply by launching multiple readers of /proc/cpuinfo: (while true; do cat /proc/cpuinfo > /dev/null; done) & (while true; do cat /proc/cpuinfo > /dev/null; done) & ... Fix by initializing the system type string only once during the early boot. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nsn.com> Reviewed-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com> Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7437/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c18
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c
index 2a75ff249e7..6430e7acb1e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c
@@ -463,6 +463,18 @@ static void octeon_halt(void)
octeon_kill_core(NULL);
}
+static char __read_mostly octeon_system_type[80];
+
+static int __init init_octeon_system_type(void)
+{
+ snprintf(octeon_system_type, sizeof(octeon_system_type), "%s (%s)",
+ cvmx_board_type_to_string(octeon_bootinfo->board_type),
+ octeon_model_get_string(read_c0_prid()));
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(init_octeon_system_type);
+
/**
* Handle all the error condition interrupts that might occur.
*
@@ -482,11 +494,7 @@ static irqreturn_t octeon_rlm_interrupt(int cpl, void *dev_id)
*/
const char *octeon_board_type_string(void)
{
- static char name[80];
- sprintf(name, "%s (%s)",
- cvmx_board_type_to_string(octeon_bootinfo->board_type),
- octeon_model_get_string(read_c0_prid()));
- return name;
+ return octeon_system_type;
}
const char *get_system_type(void)