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authorAaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nsn.com>2014-07-22 14:51:08 +0300
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2014-08-26 02:18:57 +0200
commit33d9a530d4a87c5d645cfc82f23108ca8d89aa78 (patch)
treec526f119bb038cb920999356635f7fbd085c62e3 /arch/mips/bcm63xx
parent56d2960958f81db9cfd488e530d2206edede5f8f (diff)
MIPS: OCTEON: make get_system_type() thread-safe
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> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org 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>
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