commit f36fdb9f0266811ee27140acc6ac5ff21199b159
author Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Sat Dec 14 09:30:15 2013 -0800
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Wed Dec 18 16:45:38 2013 -0800
tree db55e44e0d29792be1f0ebba9e92939e54d4d8a6
parent 14d32383965243ea37f00656538d91a2ea3a719f

i8k: Force SMM to run on CPU 0

On Studio 1555 with dual-core CPU, reading sensor attributes
exported by this driver resulted in random failures combined
with system hangups and forced logouts. Information in
drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c suggests that SMM accesses must
run on CPU 0. With this patch, the problems are gone,
suggesting that this is in fact the case.

Code derived from drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c.

Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

drivers/char/i8k.c

diff --git a/drivers/char/i8k.c b/drivers/char/i8k.c
index 7e31e47..f24bbcd 100644
--- a/drivers/char/i8k.c
+++ b/drivers/char/i8k.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/hwmon-sysfs.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #include <linux/i8k.h>
 
@@ -130,6 +131,17 @@
 {
 	int rc;
 	int eax = regs->eax;
+	cpumask_var_t old_mask;
+
+	/* SMM requires CPU 0 */
+	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&old_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	cpumask_copy(old_mask, &current->cpus_allowed);
+	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(0));
+	if (smp_processor_id() != 0) {
+		rc = -EBUSY;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
 	asm volatile("pushq %%rax\n\t"
@@ -185,9 +197,12 @@
 	    :    "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");
 #endif
 	if (rc != 0 || (regs->eax & 0xffff) == 0xffff || regs->eax == eax)
-		return -EINVAL;
+		rc = -EINVAL;
 
-	return 0;
+out:
+	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, old_mask);
+	free_cpumask_var(old_mask);
+	return rc;
 }
 
 /*