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drivers/base: cacheinfo: handle absence of caches

On some simulators like GEM5, caches may not be simulated. In those
cases, the cache levels and leaves will be zero and will result in
following exception:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0040
pgd = ffffffc0008fa000
[00000040] *pgd=00000009f6807003, *pud=00000009f6807003,
*pmd=00000009f6808003, *pte=006000002c010707
Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #198
task: ffffffc9768a0000 ti: ffffffc9768a8000 task.ti: ffffffc9768a8000
PC is at detect_cache_attributes+0x98/0x2c8
LR is at detect_cache_attributes+0x88/0x2c8

kcalloc(0) returns a special value ZERO_SIZE_PTR which is non-NULL value
but results in fault only on any attempt to dereferencing it. So
checking for the non-NULL pointer will not suffice.

This patch checks for non-zero cache leaf nodes and returns error if
there are no cache leaves in detect_cache_attributes.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19.x
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: William Wang <william.wang@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

authored by

Sudeep Holla and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3370e13a 194ec936

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drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
··· 179 { 180 int ret; 181 182 - if (init_cache_level(cpu)) 183 return -ENOENT; 184 185 per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu) = kcalloc(cache_leaves(cpu),
··· 179 { 180 int ret; 181 182 + if (init_cache_level(cpu) || !cache_leaves(cpu)) 183 return -ENOENT; 184 185 per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu) = kcalloc(cache_leaves(cpu),