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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2016-07-05 15:03:59 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-07-21 18:59:21 +1000
commit84b62c72faa197a5c9b75ee93527add31695fb32 (patch)
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parent7025776ed1ebdfa1959932e7a4662c2f88607df0 (diff)
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powerpc: Ensure that ppc_md is empty before probing for machine type
Anything in there will be overwritten, so it helps catching nasty bugs if we check that it's indeed full of NULL's before we do so. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index 2a3564caafd3..b8ee1c867ee3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ void probe_machine(void)
{
extern struct machdep_calls __machine_desc_start;
extern struct machdep_calls __machine_desc_end;
+ unsigned int i;
/*
* Iterate all ppc_md structures until we find the proper
@@ -582,6 +583,17 @@ void probe_machine(void)
*/
DBG("Probing machine type ...\n");
+ /*
+ * Check ppc_md is empty, if not we have a bug, ie, we setup an
+ * entry before probe_machine() which will be overwritten
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < (sizeof(ppc_md) / sizeof(void *)); i++) {
+ if (((void **)&ppc_md)[i]) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "Entry %d in ppc_md non empty before"
+ " machine probe !\n", i);
+ }
+ }
+
for (machine_id = &__machine_desc_start;
machine_id < &__machine_desc_end;
machine_id++) {