tree 01cfc120450c7cb1599855ece2c4a7051946b683
parent 5ae42046433e6507f2dd8b6c35e2eabfe06278cb
author Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nsn.com> 1406029868 +0300
committer chrmhoffmann <chrmhoffmann@gmail.com> 1586074838 +0200

MIPS: OCTEON: make get_system_type() thread-safe

commit 608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d upstream.

get_system_type() is not thread-safe on OCTEON. It uses static data,
also more dangerous issue is that it's calling cvmx_fuse_read_byte()
every time without any synchronization. Currently it's possible to get
processes stuck looping forever in kernel simply by launching multiple
readers of /proc/cpuinfo:

	(while true; do cat /proc/cpuinfo > /dev/null; done) &
	(while true; do cat /proc/cpuinfo > /dev/null; done) &
	...

Fix by initializing the system type string only once during the early
boot.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nsn.com>
Reviewed-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7437/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
[lizf: Backport to 3.x: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>