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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: ashok.raj@intel.com, davej@redhat.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 16:52:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060202165257.29dcfa20.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602021904_MC3-1-B771-46F7@compuserve.com>

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?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03  0:00 Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-03  0:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-02-03  1:33   ` Dave Jones
2006-02-03  7:02 Chuck Ebbert

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