On some simulators like GEM5, caches may not be simulated. In those
cases, the cache levels and leaves will be zero and will result in
following exception:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0040
pgd = ffffffc0008fa000
[00000040] *pgd=00000009f6807003, *pud=00000009f6807003,
*pmd=00000009f6808003, *pte=006000002c010707
Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #198
task: ffffffc9768a0000 ti: ffffffc9768a8000 task.ti: ffffffc9768a8000
PC is at detect_cache_attributes+0x98/0x2c8
LR is at detect_cache_attributes+0x88/0x2c8
kcalloc(0) returns a special value ZERO_SIZE_PTR which is non-NULL value
but results in fault only on any attempt to dereferencing it. So
checking for the non-NULL pointer will not suffice.
This patch checks for non-zero cache leaf nodes and returns error if
there are no cache leaves in detect_cache_attributes.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19.x
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: William Wang <william.wang@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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