[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid panic during boot due to divide by zero in init_cache_info()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Mar 5 11:27:10 AEDT 2017


On Sun, 2017-03-05 at 11:25 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-03-05 at 10:54 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> > 
> > I see a panic in early boot when building with a recent gcc
> > toolchain.
> > The issue is a divide by zero, which is undefined. Older toolchains
> > let us get away with it:
> 
> Maybe we should panic though ... not having a valid cache block size
> is going to be fatal in other areas...

 ... Unless it's for L2/L3 caches. Of course...

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

> > int foo(int a) { return a / 0; }
> > 
> > foo:
> > 	li 9,0
> > 	divw 3,3,9
> > 	extsw 3,3
> > 	blr
> > 
> > But newer ones catch it:
> > 
> > foo:
> > 	trap
> > 
> > Add a check to avoid the divide by zero.
> > 
> > Fixes: bd067f83b084 ("powerpc/64: Fix naming of cache block vs.
> > cache
> > line")
> > Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> > b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> > index adf2084..afd1c26 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> > @@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ static void init_cache_info(struct
> > ppc_cache_info
> > *info, u32 size, u32 lsize,
> >  	info->line_size = lsize;
> >  	info->block_size = bsize;
> >  	info->log_block_size = __ilog2(bsize);
> > -	info->blocks_per_page = PAGE_SIZE / bsize;
> > +	if (bsize)
> > +		info->blocks_per_page = PAGE_SIZE / bsize;
> >  
> >  	if (sets == 0)
> >  		info->assoc = 0xffff;


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