diff options
author | Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nsn.com> | 2014-07-22 14:51:08 +0300 |
---|---|---|
committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2014-08-19 18:24:42 +0200 |
commit | 608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d (patch) | |
tree | dbf68401067b7d6582d55705afb23ab374c57329 /usr/Kconfig | |
parent | 6521d9a436a62e83ce57d6be6e5484e1098c1380 (diff) | |
download | op-kernel-dev-608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d.zip op-kernel-dev-608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d.tar.gz |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr/Kconfig')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions