Messages in this thread | | | From | Pu Wen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Avoid endless loop to get the number of cache leaves | Date | Sat, 8 Dec 2018 10:46:54 +0800 |
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Sorry for the late reply :)
On 2018/11/16 1:22, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> @@ -640,7 +641,7 @@ static int find_num_cache_leaves(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) >> /* Do cpuid(op) loop to find out num_cache_leaves */ >> cpuid_count(op, i, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); >> cache_eax.full = eax; >> - } while (cache_eax.split.type != CTYPE_NULL); >> + } while (cache_eax.split.type != CTYPE_NULL && i != CTYPE_MAX); > i is an int and CTYPE_MAX is enum _cache_type. Huh?
How about define CTYPE_MAX like this: #define CTYPE_MAX 4
> This works by chance because CTYPE_MAX is 4 and the termination CPUID > leaf is the 4th too.
It will return CTYPE_NULL when accessing the 4th CPUID leaf in most of the cases, but in certain case it will not. So I think it's better to restrict the maximum CPUID access times to 4 for kernel robustness.
-- Regards, Pu Wen
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