msr_open tests for someone trying to open a device for a nonexistent CPU.
However, the function always returns 0, not ret like it should, hence
userspace can BUG the kernel trivially. This bug was introduced by the
cdev lock_kernel pushdown patch last May.
The BUG can be reproduced with these commands:
# mknod fubar c 202 8 <-- pick a number less than NR_CPUS that is not
the number of an online CPU
# cat fubar
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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