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Commit 3eae49ca authored by cpw's avatar cpw Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/UV: Fix NULL pointer dereference in uv_flush_tlb_others() if the 'nobau' boot option is used



The SGI UV tlb shootdown code panics the system with a NULL
pointer deference if 'nobau' is specified on the boot
commandline.

uv_flush_tlb_other() gets called for every flush, whether the
BAU is disabled or not.  It should not be keeping the s_enters
statistic while the BAU is disabled.

The panic occurs because during initialization
init_per_cpu_tunables() does not set the bcp->statp pointer if
'nobau' was specified.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12.x
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1VnzBi-0005yF-MU@eag09.americas.sgi.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 8b3b005d
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