From: Thomas Abraham <tabraham@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:52:33 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: lscpu: avoid segfault on PowerPC systems with valid hardware configurations
X-Git-Tag: v2.37-rc1~299
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80fcd2c802b5ae572bc844c996891c9d00bef080;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

lscpu: avoid segfault on PowerPC systems with valid hardware configurations

ntypes greater than 1 is valid in some hardware configurations, and an assert()
on the value isn't necessary or very future proof

[kzak@redhat.com: - port this patch to new code]

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/sys-utils/lscpu-cputype.c b/sys-utils/lscpu-cputype.c
index b71f571697..ec89b3c09f 100644
--- a/sys-utils/lscpu-cputype.c
+++ b/sys-utils/lscpu-cputype.c
@@ -714,7 +714,6 @@ int lscpu_read_archext(struct lscpu_cxt *cxt)
 			goto nortas;
 
 		ntypes = strbe16toh(buf, 2);
-		assert(ntypes <= 1);
 		if (!ntypes)
 			goto nortas;