[PATCH] ARM: l2x0: protect outer_cache_fns.sync pointer assignment with OUTER_CACHE_SYNC

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Sep 26 09:12:07 EDT 2013


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:52:30PM +0100, Eran Ben-Avi wrote:
> Outer cache sync pointer function should be assigned only if OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
> config option was selected, otherwise pointer is not valid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eran Ben-Avi <benavi at marvell.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
> index 447da6f..d358573 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static inline void l2x0_flush_line(unsigned long addr)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
>  static void l2x0_cache_sync(void)
>  {
>      unsigned long flags;
> @@ -136,6 +137,7 @@ static void l2x0_cache_sync(void)
>      cache_sync();
>      raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&l2x0_lock, flags);
>  }
> +#endif
>  
>  static void __l2x0_flush_all(void)
>  {
> @@ -411,7 +413,9 @@ void __init l2x0_init(void __iomem *base, u32 aux_val, u32 aux_mask)
>          outer_cache.inv_range = l2x0_inv_range;
>          outer_cache.clean_range = l2x0_clean_range;
>          outer_cache.flush_range = l2x0_flush_range;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
>          outer_cache.sync = l2x0_cache_sync;
> +#endif

Since outer_cache.sync is conditionally defined, the patch makes sense.
Alternatively, we could leave the .sync member always defined and just
have a conditionally defined l2x0_cache_sync (NULL when
!OUTER_CACHE_SYNC).

-- 
Catalin



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