From 07dccf3344010f9b9df7fe725da7e73bca2992df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:00:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback Spawing ksoftirqd, migration, or watchdog, and calling init_timers_cpu() may fail with small memory. If it happens in initcalls, kernel NULL pointer dereference happens later. This patch makes crash happen immediately in such cases. It seems a bit better than getting kernel NULL pointer dereference later. Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/softirq.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c') diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index 3789ca98197c..bf25015dce16 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -612,7 +612,9 @@ static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata cpu_nfb = { __init int spawn_ksoftirqd(void) { void *cpu = (void *)(long)smp_processor_id(); - cpu_callback(&cpu_nfb, CPU_UP_PREPARE, cpu); + int err = cpu_callback(&cpu_nfb, CPU_UP_PREPARE, cpu); + + BUG_ON(err == NOTIFY_BAD); cpu_callback(&cpu_nfb, CPU_ONLINE, cpu); register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_nfb); return 0; -- cgit v1.2.3