Re: [PATCH 8/9] x86, RAS: Add attributes needed for HW injection

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Oct 19 2011 - 17:10:11 EST


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:03:43PM -0400, David Rientjes wrote:
> > +static int inj_extcpu_set(void *data, u64 val)
> > +{
> > + struct mce *m = (struct mce *)data;
> > +
> > + if (val >= num_online_cpus()) {
>
> That wouldn't catch an offline cpuid, you probably want cpu_online(val)?

Good catch, thanks.

So I'm looking at <arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c> which is how the validity of
a cpu value should be tested properly, IMHO:

static int cpuid_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
...

if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids || !cpu_online(cpu))
return -ENXIO; /* No such CPU */
...

Thanks.

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