From: Daniel J Blueman Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 06:42:05 +0000 (+0800) Subject: x86, amd, mce: Avoid NULL pointer reference on CPU northbridge lookup X-Git-Tag: v3.7-rc2~9^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21c5e50e15b1abd797e62f18fd7f90b9cc004cbd;p=~andy%2Flinux x86, amd, mce: Avoid NULL pointer reference on CPU northbridge lookup When booting on a federated multi-server system (NumaScale), the processor Northbridge lookup returns NULL; add guards to prevent this causing an oops. On those systems, the northbridge is accessed through MMIO and the "normal" northbridge enumeration in amd_nb.c doesn't work since we're generating the northbridge ID from the initial APIC ID and the last is not unique on those systems. Long story short, we end up without northbridge descriptors. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.6 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349073725-14093-1-git-send-email-daniel@numascale-asia.com [ Boris: beef up commit message ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c index c4e916d7737..698b6ec12e0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c @@ -576,12 +576,10 @@ static __cpuinit int threshold_create_bank(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank) int err = 0; if (shared_bank[bank]) { - nb = node_to_amd_nb(amd_get_nb_id(cpu)); - WARN_ON(!nb); /* threshold descriptor already initialized on this node? */ - if (nb->bank4) { + if (nb && nb->bank4) { /* yes, use it */ b = nb->bank4; err = kobject_add(b->kobj, &dev->kobj, name); @@ -615,8 +613,10 @@ static __cpuinit int threshold_create_bank(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank) atomic_set(&b->cpus, 1); /* nb is already initialized, see above */ - WARN_ON(nb->bank4); - nb->bank4 = b; + if (nb) { + WARN_ON(nb->bank4); + nb->bank4 = b; + } } err = allocate_threshold_blocks(cpu, bank, 0,