[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 <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index d644f4e..a2cb1ec 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1694,8 +1694,10 @@
void __init init_timers(void)
{
- timer_cpu_notify(&timers_nb, (unsigned long)CPU_UP_PREPARE,
+ int err = timer_cpu_notify(&timers_nb, (unsigned long)CPU_UP_PREPARE,
(void *)(long)smp_processor_id());
+
+ BUG_ON(err == NOTIFY_BAD);
register_cpu_notifier(&timers_nb);
open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq, NULL);
}
